Luca Basso, Ph.D. University of Pisa, studied in Padua and in Berlin. He is Researcher of Political Philosophy at the University of Padua. He has published many articles and three monographs: Individuo e comunità nella filosofia politica di Leibniz (Rubbettino, 2005), Socialità e isolamento: la singolarità in Marx (Carocci, 2008) of which the current book is a revised edition, and Agire in comune. Antropologia e politica nell’ultimo Marx (Ombre Corte, 2012).

• Introduction1. The question of individuality1.1. Individuals, determination and contingency1.2. Gattungswesen and politics: from the Critique of Hegel’s Doctrine of the State to The Holy Family1.3. The individual separation between bourgeois and citoyen1.4. A society without relations1.5. The need for a change of perspective: The German Ideology2. Beyond the ‘private – social’ dichotomy2.1. Social power and randomness in The German Ideology2.2. The ambivalence of the community2.3. Singularity and practice: the realisation of ‘individuals as such’.2.4. Common class-action2.5. Towards 1848: thinking in the conjuncture3. Social Nexus and Indifference3.1. The genesis of individuality and capitalism in the Grundrisse: the breakthrough of the critique of political economy3.2. Gemeinwesen in precapitalist social formations 3.3. Society as an ensemble not of individuals, but of relations 3.4. The subject between universality and emptiness3.5. Isolation: a sentence or a potentiality ConclusionBibliographyIndex

"[...] both works [including Basso's Marx and Singularity] are exciting and outstanding achievements in academic Marxism, and we should applaud the editors of the Historical Materialism Book Series for making this work available to an English language readership." – Christian Lotz, in: Marx & Philosophy, 9 May 2014