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Warren Montag teaches 18th-century British and European literature with particular reference to political philosophy; he also teaches 20th-century European critical theory.
Editor of D茅calages: a Journal of Althusser Studies
Areas of Specialization :
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature, the Enlightenment, Literature and Philosophy 1600-1800, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Twentieth-Century French Philosophy.
Publications
Books
(with Mike Hill) The Other Adam Smith (forthcoming 2014, Stanford University Press)
Philosophy鈥檚 Perpetual War: Althusser and his Contemporaries (Durham: Duke University Press,听 2013)
Louis Althusser (London: Palgrave, 2003)
Bodies, Masses, Power: Spinoza and his Contemporaries , (London: Verso, 1999).
(Spanish translation, Ediciones Tierra de Nadie, 2005;聽 Korean translation forthcoming)
The Unthinkable Swift : The Spontaneous Philosophy of a Church of England Man , (London: Verso, 1994).
Edited Collections
(Co-Editor) Masses, Classes and The Public Sphere (London: Verso,听 2001).
(Ed) 聽聽In a Materialist Way: Selected Essays by Pierre Macherey (London: Verso, 1998).
(Co-Editor) The New Spinoza (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997).
Journal Special Issues
(Co-editor with Nancy Armstrong) differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies , Vol 20, n. 3-4, 2009 (鈥淭he Future of the Human鈥).聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽
Essays
鈥淔rom Clinamen to Conatus: Deleuze, Lucretius and Spinoza,鈥 in Lucretius and Modernity, ed. Jacques Lezra. Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming. 聽French translation 2013.聽
鈥淩anci猫re鈥檚 Lost Object鈥 Cultural Critique, vol 83, Winter 2013. 139-155.
Althusser: Law and the Threat of the Outside,鈥 Althusser and Law , ed. Laurent du Sutter. Routledge, 2013..
鈥淢acherey entre le quotidien et l鈥檜topie,鈥 La Revue des Livres (Mai-Juin 2013)
聽鈥淏etween Interpellation and Immunization: Althusser, Balibar and Esposito,鈥 Postmodern Culture 聽Vol 33, number 3, 2012
鈥淐onjuncture, Conflict, War: Machiavelli Between Althusser and Foucault (1975-1976)鈥 Encountering Althusser , ed. Peter Thomas. Continuum, 2012.
鈥淗egel, sive Spinoza or Hegel as his Own True Other,鈥 Hegel after Spinoza , ed. Hasana Sharp and Jason Smith. Continuum,听 2012.
鈥淓l afuera de la ley: Schmitt, Kelsen y la Resistencia legal a la ley,鈥 Youkali 13 (2012).
鈥淭o discompose and disorder the whole machine of the world:鈥 Adam Smith, Epicurus and Lucretius,鈥 Rivista di storia della filosofia 67:2 (2012): 267-276.
Introduction to Louis Althusser, 鈥淪tudent Problems,鈥 Radical Philosophy 170, Nov.-Dec, 2011.
鈥淚mmanence, Transcendence and the Trace: Derrida between Levinas and Spinoza,鈥 Badmidbar: a Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy , 2, Autumn 2011.
鈥淟ucretius Hebraizant: Spinoza鈥檚 Reading of Ecclesiastes,鈥 European Journal of Philosophy , 20 (2012). Spanish translation, Spinoza contemporaneo . Ed. Galcer谩n and Espinoza. Madrid: Tierradenadie ediciones, 2009.
鈥淟ouis Althusser,鈥 The Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy , vol. 6, ed. Alan Schrift,. London: Acumen Press, 2010.
鈥淭he Late Althusser: Materialism of the Encounter or Philosophy of the Void?鈥 Culture, Theory and Critique, (2010); Religgere Il Capitale: La lezione di Louis Althusser . Edizione Mimesis (Italian Translation), 2010. Problemi (Slovenian trans.), (2009)..
鈥淚nterjecting Empty Spaces: Imagination and Interpretation in Spinoza鈥檚 Tractatus Theologico-Politicus ,听 Spinoza Now , ed. Dimitris Vardoulakis, University of Minnesota Press,听 forthcoming (Italian trans. 2010).
聽鈥淪pectres d鈥橝lthusser,鈥 La revue internationale des livres et des id茅es , janvier-f茅vrier 2010, no. 15. English version, Historical Materialism
鈥淚mitating the Affects of Beasts: Interest and Inhumanity in Spinoza,鈥 Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 聽Vol 20, n. 3-4, 2009. (Spanish trans. 2009) (Italian Translation forthcoming).
鈥淲ar and the Market: the Global South in the Origins of Neo-liberalism,鈥 The Global South , April 2009, Vol. 3, no. 1.
鈥淟ocke et le concept d鈥檌nhumain,鈥 Multitudes , no. 33, 脡t茅 2008.
鈥淪emites, ou la fiction de l鈥檃utre,鈥 (review essay) La revue internationale des livres et des id茅es , mai-juin 2008, no 5.
鈥淭umultuous Combinations: Transindividuality in Adam Smith and Spinoza,鈥 Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 聽 28 (1) 2007.
鈥淓l peligroso derecho a la existencia: la necroeconomia de Von Mises y Hayek,鈥 Youkali 2, November 2006.聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽
鈥淛onathan Swift,鈥澛 Encyclopedia of British Literary History , Oxford University Press, 2006.
鈥淟ouis Althusser: the Intellectual and the Conjuncture鈥 Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics , ed. David Bates, London: Palgrave, 2006. Abridged version in Il Manifesto , Nov. 9, 2006 (Italian Translation).
聽鈥淥n the Function of the Concept of Origin: Althusser鈥檚 Reading of Locke鈥, Current Continental Theory and Early Modern Philosophy , ed. Stephen Daniels (Northwestern U P: 2006).
鈥淣ecro-Economics: Adam Smith and Death in the Life of the Universal,鈥 Radical Philosophy November 2005, Youkali 1, April 2006 (Spanish trans.), Critica Marxista 聽 23, 2006 (Portuguese trans.)聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽
鈥淔oucault: the Immanence of Law in Power,鈥 Michel Foucault and Social Control , ed. Alain Beaulieu and David Gabbard, Lexington Press, 2005.
鈥淔oucault and the Problematic of Origins: Althusser鈥檚 Reading of Folie et d茅raison 鈥 Borderlands 4.2, 2005; Actuel Marx (French trans. 2004); Theseis (Greek trans. 2004).
鈥淲ho鈥檚 Afraid of the Multitude: Between the Individual and the State,鈥 South Atlantic Quarterly (Fall 2005);聽 Slagmark n.39 2004 (Danish trans.); Quaderni Materialisti n.2 2004 (Italian trans.);聽 Theseis (Greek trans. 2004) (Polish translation 2010).聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽
鈥淢ateriality, Singularity, Subject: Response to Callari, Hardt, Parker and Smith,鈥 Symposium on Louis Althusser , Rethinking Marxism (17:2, April 2005).
鈥淧olitics: Transcendent or Immanent? A response to Miguel Vatter,鈥 Theory and Event (7:4, 2004).
鈥淒er neue Spinoza鈥 Immaterielle Arbeit und imperiale Souver盲init盲t ed. Thomas Atzert and Jost M眉ller (Munster: Westf盲lisches Dampfboot, 2004).聽聽聽聽聽
鈥淟a dialectique 脿 la cantonade: Althusser devant l鈥檃rt鈥 Sartre, Althusser, Lukacs ed. Eustache Kouvelakis (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2004).聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽
鈥淭owards a Conception of Racism without Race: Foucault and Contemporary Bio-politics,鈥 Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy (2002).
鈥淪pinoza and the Concept of the Shekhinah鈥 Jewish Themes in Spinoza鈥檚 Philosophy ,ed.
Lenn Goodman and Heidi Ravven (Albany: SUNY Press, 2002).
鈥淔rom the Standpoint of the Masses: Antonio Negri鈥檚 Insurgencies 鈥 (review essay) Historical Materialism 9 2002).
鈥淒escartes and Spinoza鈥 and 鈥淎lthusser鈥 The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Literary Criticism and Theory 1945-2000 , ed. Julian Wolfreys (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U P, 2002).
鈥淰ers une conception du racisme sans race: Foucault et la biopolitique contemporaine,鈥 Foucault et la m茅decine ed. Philippe Arti猫res et Emmanuel da Silva (Paris: Kim茅, 2001).
鈥淕ulliver鈥檚 Solitude: the Paradoxes of Swift鈥檚 Anti-Individualism,鈥 Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation 42:1 2001.
鈥淭he Pressure of the Street: Habermas鈥檚 Fear of the Masses鈥, Masses, Classes, Counterpublics , ed. Mike Hill and Warren Montag (London: Verso, 2001)
鈥淪pirits Armed and Unarmed: Derrida鈥檚 Specters 鈥, Ghostly Demarcations ed. Michael Sprinker (London: Verso, 1999). (Spanish translation, 2002, Turkish translation 2004, Portuguese translation 2008, Italian translation 2009)
鈥淢odernit茅 de Spinoza鈥 Magazine Litt茅raire 370, Novembre 1998 (Portuguese translation, 2006).
Preface to Etienne Balibar, Spinoza and Politics (London: Verso,听 1998).
鈥淎lthusser鈥檚 Nominalism: Structure and Singularity 1962-1966". Rethinking Marxism 10:3 Fall 1998.
鈥淐an the Subaltern Speak and Other Transcendental Questions,鈥 Cultural Logic 聽 1.2 1998. (French translation, Multitudes , 2006).聽聽聽聽聽聽聽
聽鈥淪econd Response to Carole Fabricant鈥 (on Swift), Eighteenth-Century Fiction ,听 9:3, 1997.
鈥淭he Universalization of Whiteness: Racism and Enlightenment鈥, Whiteness: A Critical Reader , ed. Mike Hill (New York: New York University Press, 1997).
鈥淩esponse to Carole Fabricant鈥 (on Swift), Eighteenth-Century Fiction , 9:1, 1996.
鈥淭he Soul is the Prison of the Body: Althusser and Foucault 1970-1975", Yale French Studies , Fall 1995. Spanish translation, Youkali , 2010, Polish translation 2010.
"Beyond Force and Consent: Hobbes, Spinoza, Althusser" in Marxism and Postmodernism: Essays in the Althusserian Tradition , eds. Antonio Callari and David Ruccio (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1995). (Korean translation 1998, Norwegian translation forthcoming).
"A Process without a Subject or Goal(s): How to Read Althusser's Autobiography", Marxism in the New World Order: Crises and Possibilities , ed. Antonio Callari (New York: Guilford Press,1995) (Korean translation 1996; Greek translation 1998).
"Althusser and Spinoza Against Hermeneutics: Interpretation or Intervention?", in The Althusserian Legacy , eds. E. Ann Kaplan and Michael Sprinker (London: Verso, 1993) (Turkish translation, forthcoming.聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽
"The Workshop of Filthy Creation: A Marxist Reading of Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism , eds. Ross C. Murfin and聽 Johanna Smith (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991, Second Edition, 2000).
"The Emptiness of a Distance Taken: Freud, Lacan, Althusser" Rethinking Marxism ,听聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Spring, 1991 (Korean Translation, 1994).
"Spinoza: Politics in a World Without Transcendence", Rethinking Marxism , Fall 1989.
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"What is at Stake in the Debate on Postmodernism", Postmodernism and Its Discontents , (London: Verso, 1988).
(Korean translation 1990, Portuguese translation 1993)
"Macherey and Literary Analysis", Minnesota Review , Spring 1986.
"Lacan and Feminine Sexuality", Quarterly Review of Film Studies , Fall 1985.
"Marxism and Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Encounter", Minnesota Review , Fall 1984 (Korean Translation 1992).
Translations
Etienne Balibar, Identity and Difference: Locke鈥檚 Invention of Consciousness , (Verso, 2013)
(with Willi Goetschel) Jacques Derrida, 鈥淟anguage and the Discourse of Method,鈥 Badmidbar: a Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy , 2, Autumn 2011.
Louis Althusser, "On Marx and Freud." Rethinking Marxism , Spring, 1991.
Louis Althusser, The Spontaneous Philosophy of Scientists and Other Essays , (London: Verso, 1990).
Michel P茅cheux, "Discourse: Structure or Event?" Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture .聽 (Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1988).聽 Revised version in Ian Parker, ed. Lacanian Discourse Analysis (forthcoming)
Pierre Macherey, "History and Novel in Balzac's The Peasants ."听 Minnesota Review , Spring 1986.