Franck Fischbach is Professor of the History of German Philosophy at the Sorbonne (University of Paris, One). He is the author of Apres la production. Travail, nature et capital (Vrin, 2019), La privation de monde. Temps, espace et capital (Vrin, 2011) and L'etre et l'acte. Enquete sur les fondements de l'ontologie moderne de l'agir, (Vrin, 2002).
"By employing Spinoza as a lens or filter for rereading Marx, Fischbach's wonderfully lucid analysis not only demonstrates how much the two thinkers share foundational philosophical arguments but also casts a new light to illuminate Marx's work as a whole.-- ""Michael Hardt, Duke University"" Fischbach's book provides a crucial counterbalance against the presumed affinity between Marx's later works and Spinoza's monist metaphysics.--Kenneth Novis ""Marx and Philosophy Review of Books"" Twentieth-century Marxism has often turned to Spinoza to breathe new life into Marx's thought (think of Louis Althusser and Antonio Negri). In a similar vein, Franck Fischbach offers us an astonishing new reading of Marx's 1844 Manuscripts in the light of Spinoza, simultaneously generating an original reading of Spinoza in the light of Marx. At the intersection of these two interpretive movements lies a novel conception of alienation, which, in Fischbach's hands, becomes a sharp theoretical tool for reading the present.-- ""Vittorio Morfino, University of Milan-Bicocca"""