Includes bibliographical references and index.

Marxism and the History of Philosophy -- What is a Philosophical Tendency? -- Paul of Tarsus, Thinker of the Conjuncture -- Paul's Gift Economy: Wages, Debt, and Debt Cancellation -- Althusser and the Problem of Historical Individuality -- 'The Roaring of the Sea': Hobbes on the Madness of the Multitude -- Spinoza's Three Modes of Rebellion: Indignant, Glorious, and Serene -- Alexandre Matheron on Militant Reason and the Intellectual Love of God -- An Ethics for Marxism: Spinoza on Fortitude -- Marxism and Contemporary Philosophy -- Death and Life in Marx's Capital: an Ethical Investigation -- Hegel or Spinoza: Substance, Subject, and Critical Marxism -- Contradictions of Hyperreality: Baudrillard, Žižek, and Virtual Dialectics -- A Marxist Encounter with the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze -- Deleuze and Althusser: Flirting with Structuralism -- Marxist Wisdom: Antonio Negri on the Book of Job -- A Displaced Transition: Habermas on the Public Sphere -- Self-Emancipation, Then and Now -- Self-Emancipation and Political Marxism -- Islamophobia and Self-Emancipation -- Climate Crisis, Ideology, and Collective Action -- Beatitude: Marx, Aristotle, Averroes, Spinoza.

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