Luca Basso, Ph.D (2004), University of Pisa, is Full Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Padua. His previous works include Marx and Singularity; From the Early Writings to the Grundrisse (Brill, 2012), and Marx and the Common: From Capital to the Late Writings (Brill, 2015).

• IntroductionPart 1 Sartre: From Descartes to Marx1 The Invention of Human Freedom: Descartes Beyond Descartes1 Anthropology2 A Philosophy of Freedom3 Humanism and Intersubjectivity: towards the Critique of Dialectical Reason2 ‘Fused Group’ and Fraternité: Between Rousseau and the French Revolution1 The Practico-Inert: Objectivity and Alienation2 Acting in Common: the Storming of the Bastille3 The Dynamic of Fraternity3 The Novum of Communism between Freedom and Equality: Marx1 The Confrontation with Marx and Marxism2 Class and Action3 ‘The Realm of Freedom’Part 2 Sartre and the Twentieth Century4 Common Praxis and History: From the Russian Revolution to the Soviet Union1 The Dimension of History2 Between Stalin and Trotsky: ‘Socialism in One Country’ and ‘Permanent Revolution’3 The Incarnation of the Russian Revolution and Totalisation5 Seriality and Bureaucratisation: a Reified Equality1 The Construction of the Soviet Man2 The ‘Sovereignty of a Single Individual’ and Stalin’s Ghost6 The ‘Spectre’ of 1968: Critique of Colonialism and New Spaces of Emancipation1 Another Socialism Is Possible?2 Between Race and Class: the Struggle of the ‘Wretched of the Earth’3 ‘Autour De 68’7 The Invention of the ‘Universal Singular’1 Open Problems2 Between the ‘Individual’-‘Collective’ Dualism: Rethinking SubjectivationBibliographyIndex