Marx with Spinoza: Production, Alienation, History

Franck Fischbach

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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Reference Conventions
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Preface to the Second Edition
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Introduction: Spinoza, Marx and the Politics of Liberation
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1 - Marxism and Spinozism
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2 - Pars Naturae
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3 - Enduring Social Relations
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4 - The Identity of Nature and History
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5 - With Respect to Contradiction
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6 - The Secondary Nature of the Consciousness of Self
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7 - Subjectivity and Alienation (or the Impotence of the Subject)
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8 - The Factory of Subjectivity
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9 - Pure and Impure Activity
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Conclusion: Metaphysics and Production
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Appendix: The Question of Alienation: Frédéric Lordon, Marx and Spinoza
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Bibliography
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Production, Alienation, History

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Reference Conventions
pp vi-vi

Preface to the Second Edition
pp vii-x

Introduction: Spinoza, Marx and the Politics of Liberation
pp 1-12

1 - Marxism and Spinozism
pp 13-21

2 - Pars Naturae
pp 22-26

3 - Enduring Social Relations
pp 27-35

4 - The Identity of Nature and History
pp 36-59

5 - With Respect to Contradiction
pp 60-70

6 - The Secondary Nature of the Consciousness of Self
pp 71-78

7 - Subjectivity and Alienation (or the Impotence of the Subject)
pp 79-91

8 - The Factory of Subjectivity
pp 92-100

9 - Pure and Impure Activity
pp 101-109

Conclusion: Metaphysics and Production
pp 110-136

Appendix: The Question of Alienation: Frédéric Lordon, Marx and Spinoza
pp 137-143

Bibliography
pp 144-148

Index
pp 149-150

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