Spinoza-Machiavelli Encounter

Vittorio Morfino is an Associate Professor in the History of Philosophy at the University of Milan-Bicocca and Director of programme at the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris. He has published extensively on Spinoza, Machiavelli, Marx, German Idealism, Leibniz and Althusser. His most recent book is Plural Temporality: Transindividuality and the Aleatory Between Spinoza and Althusser (Brill, 2014). Dave Mesing is Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University

• Table of ContentsAbbreviationsTranslator's Introduction: Unscripted Space, Devoured TimeTranslator's Note and AcknowledgementsIntroductionMachiavelli in Spinoza's Library and TextsMachiavelli's Implicit Presence in Spinoza's TextsCausality and Temporality Between Machiavelli and SpinozaMachiavelli and Spinoza: Theory of the Individual as Antiphilosophy of HistoryConclusion

A first book, and a masterful strike! This rigorous investigation, based on careful textual readings and imaginative interpretations, beautifully demonstrates how the "encounter" reverberates on both sides. Politics, history, ontology of time form the multiple dimensions of a dialogic production of ideas which, for 500 years now, never ceased to question the dominant representations of modernity.