Marx with Spinoza: Production, Alienation, History

Franck Fischbach

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2023

Marx with Spinoza

Production, Alienation, History

Franck Fischbach
Edited by: Jason Read

In the series Spinoza Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399507684

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About this book

A provocative study of the intersection of Spinoza and Marx that shows how their respective philosophies engage overlapping questions and problems

Offers the first translation of Fischbach’s work, and the most important book published in France on Spinoza and Marx, into English
Pairs these philosophers of production who are both critical philosophers of subjectivity
Presents a major study of the points of intersection in the thought of Spinoza and Marx
Develops original approaches to concepts such as alienation, history, and nature

Spinoza and Marx would seem to be two very opposed philosophers. Spinoza was interested in contemplating eternal truths of nature while Marx was interested in the history of capital.

Franck Fischbach suggests that by reading the two together we may better understand both history and nature, as well as ourselves, making possible a new understanding of human nature. Rather than see history and nature as opposed, history is nothing but the constant transformation of nature.

Central to this transformation is a new understanding of alienation not as loss of the self in a world of objects, but as loss of objects in a world that disconnects us from nature and social relations, leaving us isolated as a subject. The isolated individual, the kingdom within a kingdom, as Spinoza put it, is not the condition of our liberation but the basis of our subjection.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Reference Conventions Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Preface to the Second Edition Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Spinoza, Marx and the Politics of Liberation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
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2. Pars Naturae Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
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4. The Identity of Nature and History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 160
Keywords: Philosophy

eBook

Published: June 14, 2023
ISBN: 9781399507684