Marx with Spinoza

Franck Fischbach is Professor of the History of German Philosophy at the Sorbonne (University of Paris, One). He is the author of Après la production. Travail, nature et capital (Vrin, 2019), La privation de monde. Temps, espace et capital (Vrin, 2011) and L'être et l'acte. Enquête sur les fondements de l'ontologie moderne de l'agir, (Vrin, 2002). Jason Read is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, USA. He is the author of The Micro-Politics of Capital: Marx and the Prehistory of the Present (2003), The Politics of Transindividuality (2016) and The Production of Subjectivity: Marx and Philosophy (2022).

Fischbach’s book provides a crucial counterbalance against the presumed affinity between Marx’s later works and Spinoza’s monist metaphysics.

• Reference ConventionsPreface to the Second EditionIntroduction: Spinoza, Marx and the Politics of Liberation　Marxism and SpinozismPars NaturaeEnduring Social RelationsThe Identity of Nature and HistoryWith Respect to ContradictionThe Secondary Nature of the Consciousness of SelfSubjectivity and Alienation (or the Impotence of the Subject)The Factory of SubjectivityPure and Impure ActivityConclusion: Metaphysics and ProductionAppendix: The Question of Alienation: Frédéric Lordon, Marx and SpinozaWorks Cited