Marx, Epicurus, and the Origins of Historical Materialism

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Diego Fusaro

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Diego Fusaro's monograph on the influence of Epicurus on Marx's thought is multilayered. It not only explains Epicurean thought and how it impacted the young Marx, but also manages to do unto Marx what Marx did unto Epicurus. Marx employed Epicurus' critical stance toward Plato and Aristotle as an excuse, as it were, to drop not-so-subtle hints about the philosophy and politics of the Germany of his day. Fusaro, described by the influential paper La Repubblica (July 2013) as possibly the "brightest star in the Italian philosophical firmament of our times", employs Marx's critique of the German present of Marx's time to propose a critique of our own times, a critique of economic libertarianism and moral libertinism. Fusaro's underlying argument seems to be that we live in times that are nothing but Epicurean, in which dogmatic and hedonistic liberalism dominates our lives, as pensée unique. This monograph combines a twofold approach: the exoteric and the esoteric. Exoterically, it analyses of the long-ignored University dissertation of the young Karl Marx and the influences of Greek Atomism on the molding of Marx's thought system. Esoterically, or by implication, it analyses our contemporary world.

Author Biography:

diego fusaro (Turin, Italy, 1983) teaches History of Philosophy at the Institute for Higher Strategic and Political Studies, Milan, Italy. He studies the philosophy of history and the structures of historical temporality, particularly focusing on Fichte, Hegel, Marx and the German 'history of concepts'. He is the director of the I Cento Talleri series on philosophy published by Il Prato and is the editor of the online project La filosofia e i suoi eroi (Philosophy and its heroes - www.filosofico.net). He founded the association and review Interesse Nazionale (National Interest - www.interessenazionale. net). Among his most recent books are Bentornato Marx! (2009), Essere senza tempo. Accelerazione della storia e della vita (2010), Coraggio (2012), Minima mercatalia. Filosofia e capitalismo (2012), Idealismo e prassi. Fichte, Marx e Gentile (2013), Il futuro è nostro (2014), Fichte e l'anarchia del commercio (2014), Antonio Gramsci (2015), Pensare altrimenti (2016), Marx, again! (The Pertinent Press, 2017) and The Place of Possibility (The Pertinent Press, 2017). He writes for the Italian newspapers La Stampa and Il Fatto Quotidiano and makes frequent appearances on Italian TV, sharing his political analyses with the general public. Whereas Enrico Galavotti, in his Esegeti di Marx (2015), describes Diego Fusaro as 'the rising star of contemporary Italian Marxist philosophy', Fusaro defines himself as an 'independent disciple of Hegel and Marx'.

Release date Australia

March 14th, 2018

Author

Diego Fusaro

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributors

Illustrated by Davide Diedda
Translated by Anna Carnesecchi

Pages

178

Dimensions

156x234x14

ISBN-13

9781912142156

Product ID

27976850

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