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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 EnglishPairs these philosophers of production who are both critical philosophers of subjectivityPresents a major study of the points of intersection in the thought of Spinoza and MarxDevelops 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

Is it possible to write the social world and social processes from the perspective of the dominated? How can an articulation of the interests of the subaltern be thought within the framework of philosophy? And what can philosophy contribute to the thinking of resistance? In this book, Franck Fischbach - an excellent connoisseur of German philosophy, and in particular the tradition of critical theory - propounds the foundation of a French social philosophy after the German model, and in doing so, makes a contribution to Franco-German philosophical communication. In the afterword, Kurt Röttgers and Thomas Bedorf continue this exchange from the German perspective.