Vittorio Morfino | The Spinoza-Hegel Relationship in the Althusserian Path

The Spinoza-Hegel Relationship in the Althusserian Path
Until the appearance, in 1979, of Pierre Macherey's great book Hegel ou Spinoza, the Hegel-Spinoza relationship was read inside and outside the Marxist tradition in the terms fixed by Hegel in the Preface to the Phenomenology and in the Introduction to the Logic of the Concept: as an sublation that preserves and realises the essential of Spinozist thought. With Macherey something changes: Hegel and Spinoza are no longer seen as successive moments in a progressive line, but as a radical alternative. Is it correct to consider Macherey as paradigmatic of the Althusserian position? By tracing the readings of the Hegel-Spinoza relationship within Althusser's philosophical journey, from his doctoral thesis on Hegel to his last writings on aleatory materialism, an attempt will be made to highlight its oscillations, complexity, limits and contexts.
Vittorio Morfino is full professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Milan-Bicocca, director of the master in Critical Theory of the Society. He has been visiting professor at the Universidade de São Paulo, the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, the Université Bordeaux-Montaigne and the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, and has been Directeur de Programme at the Collège international de philosohie. He is the author of Il tempo e l’occasione. L’incontro Spinoza Machiavelli (Milano, 2002, Paris, 2012), Incursioni spinoziste (Milano, 2002), Il tempo della moltitudine (Roma, 2005, Paris, 2010, Madrid, 2013, Santiago, 2015), Plural Temporality. Transindividuality and the Aleatory between Spinoza and Althusser (Leiden, 2014), Genealogia di un pregiudizio. L’immagine di Spinoza in Germania da Leibniz a Marx (Hildesheim 2016), and Intersoggettività e transindividualità. Materiali per un’alternativa (Roma 2002). He is an editor of "Quaderni materialisti" and "Décalages. An Althusserian Journal”.
The international philosophical conference Between Substance & Subject. The Presence of Spinoza in Hegel (26-28 October 2023, AGRFT, Ljubljana) was organized by the University of Padua and the University of Ljubljana - Faculty of Arts & Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television. The conference was carried out as part of the project Hegel's Political Metaphysics (J6-2590), which is financed by the Slovenian Research Agency and will continue within the framework of the Hegel Congress 2024.
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