Marx with Spinoza: Production, Alienation, History: by Franck Fischbach, translated by Jason Read (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023).

Marx with Spinoza: Production, Alienation, History, by Franck Fischbach, elegantly illustrates the many Marxists deeply interested in seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch de Spinoza, who can be seen as revealing Marx's philosophy. Rather than a book on Marx and Spinoza, Fischbach insists his book focuses on Marx read through the lens of Spinoza. Fischbach explores several key themes regarding the ways that Spinoza reveals Marx's philosophy: situating human beings as irreducibly "part of nature," grasping the "identity" between nature and history, (re)conceptualizing contradiction, discerning the secondary nature of self-consciousness, linking subjectivity and alienation, and distinguishing between "pure" and "impure" forms of activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]