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Warren Montag

Professor Warren Montag
Louis M. Brown Family Professor in Literature in English
B.A., UC Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School
Appointed In
1987

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 Décalages: 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 Perpetual War: Althusser and his Contemporaries (Durham: Duke University Press,  2013)

Louis Althusser (London: Palgrave, 2003)

Bodies, Masses, Power: Spinoza and his Contemporaries , (London: Verso, 1999).

(Spanish translation, Ediciones Tierra de Nadie, 2005;  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,  2001).

(Ed)   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 (œThe Future of the Human�).                                                                                                                               

Essays

œFrom Clinamen to Conatus: Deleuze, Lucretius and Spinoza,� in Lucretius and Modernity, ed. Jacques Lezra. Palgrave Macmillan. Forthcoming.  French translation 2013. 

œRancière Lost Object� Cultural Critique, vol 83, Winter 2013. 139-155.

Althusser: Law and the Threat of the Outside,� Althusser and Law , ed. Laurent du Sutter. Routledge, 2013..

œMacherey entre le quotidien et l™utopie,� La Revue des Livres (Mai-Juin 2013)

 œBetween Interpellation and Immunization: Althusser, Balibar and Esposito,� Postmodern Culture  Vol 33, number 3, 2012

œConjuncture, Conflict, War: Machiavelli Between Althusser and Foucault (1975-1976)� Encountering Althusser , ed. Peter Thomas. Continuum, 2012.

œHegel, sive Spinoza or Hegel as his Own True Other,� Hegel after Spinoza , ed. Hasana Sharp and Jason Smith. Continuum,  2012.

œEl afuera de la ley: Schmitt, Kelsen y la Resistencia legal a la ley,� Youkali 13 (2012).

œTo discompose and disorder the whole machine of the world:� Adam Smith, Epicurus and Lucretius,� Rivista di storia della filosofia 67:2 (2012): 267-276.

Introduction to Louis Althusser, œStudent Problems,� Radical Philosophy 170, Nov.-Dec, 2011.

œImmanence, Transcendence and the Trace: Derrida between Levinas and Spinoza,� Badmidbar: a Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy , 2, Autumn 2011.

œLucretius Hebraizant: Spinoza Reading of Ecclesiastes,� European Journal of Philosophy , 20 (2012). Spanish translation, Spinoza contemporaneo . Ed. Galcerán and Espinoza. Madrid: Tierradenadie ediciones, 2009.

œLouis Althusser,� The Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy , vol. 6, ed. Alan Schrift,. London: Acumen Press, 2010.

œThe Late Althusser: Materialism of the Encounter or Philosophy of the Void?� Culture, Theory and Critique, (2010); Religgere Il Capitale: La lezione di Louis Althusser . Edizione Mimesis (Italian Translation), 2010. Problemi (Slovenian trans.), (2009)..

œInterjecting Empty Spaces: Imagination and Interpretation in Spinoza Tractatus Theologico-Politicus ,  Spinoza Now , ed. Dimitris Vardoulakis, University of Minnesota Press,  forthcoming (Italian trans. 2010).

 œSpectres d™Althusser,� La revue internationale des livres et des idées , janvier-février 2010, no. 15. English version, Historical Materialism

œImitating the Affects of Beasts: Interest and Inhumanity in Spinoza,� Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies  Vol 20, n. 3-4, 2009. (Spanish trans. 2009) (Italian Translation forthcoming).

œWar and the Market: the Global South in the Origins of Neo-liberalism,� The Global South , April 2009, Vol. 3, no. 1.

œLocke et le concept d™inhumain,� Multitudes , no. 33, Été 2008.

œSemites, ou la fiction de l™autre,� (review essay) La revue internationale des livres et des idées , mai-juin 2008, no 5.

œTumultuous Combinations: Transindividuality in Adam Smith and Spinoza,� Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal   28 (1) 2007.

œEl peligroso derecho a la existencia: la necroeconomia de Von Mises y Hayek,� Youkali 2, November 2006.                       

œJonathan Swift,�  Encyclopedia of British Literary History , Oxford University Press, 2006.

œLouis Althusser: the Intellectual and the Conjuncture� Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics , ed. David Bates, London: Palgrave, 2006. Abridged version in Il Manifesto , Nov. 9, 2006 (Italian Translation).

 œOn the Function of the Concept of Origin: Althusser Reading of Locke�, Current Continental Theory and Early Modern Philosophy , ed. Stephen Daniels (Northwestern U P: 2006).

œNecro-Economics: Adam Smith and Death in the Life of the Universal,� Radical Philosophy November 2005, Youkali 1, April 2006 (Spanish trans.), Critica Marxista   23, 2006 (Portuguese trans.)                   

œFoucault: the Immanence of Law in Power,� Michel Foucault and Social Control , ed. Alain Beaulieu and David Gabbard, Lexington Press, 2005.

œFoucault and the Problematic of Origins: Althusser Reading of Folie et déraison � Borderlands 4.2, 2005; Actuel Marx (French trans. 2004); Theseis (Greek trans. 2004).

œWho Afraid of the Multitude: Between the Individual and the State,� South Atlantic Quarterly (Fall 2005);  Slagmark n.39 2004 (Danish trans.); Quaderni Materialisti n.2 2004 (Italian trans.);  Theseis (Greek trans. 2004) (Polish translation 2010).                                                                                                      

œMateriality, Singularity, Subject: Response to Callari, Hardt, Parker and Smith,� Symposium on Louis Althusser , Rethinking Marxism (17:2, April 2005).

œPolitics: Transcendent or Immanent? A response to Miguel Vatter,� Theory and Event (7:4, 2004).

œDer neue Spinoza� Immaterielle Arbeit und imperiale Souveräinität ed. Thomas Atzert and Jost Müller (Munster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2004).     

œLa dialectique à la cantonade: Althusser devant l™art� Sartre, Althusser, Lukacs ed. Eustache Kouvelakis (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2004).                   

œTowards a Conception of Racism without Race: Foucault and Contemporary Bio-politics,� Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy (2002).

œSpinoza and the Concept of the Shekhinah� Jewish Themes in Spinoza Philosophy ,ed.

Lenn Goodman and Heidi Ravven (Albany: SUNY Press, 2002).

œFrom the Standpoint of the Masses: Antonio Negri Insurgencies � (review essay) Historical Materialism 9 2002).

œDescartes and Spinoza� and œAlthusser� The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Literary Criticism and Theory 1945-2000 , ed. Julian Wolfreys (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U P, 2002).

œVers une conception du racisme sans race: Foucault et la biopolitique contemporaine,� Foucault et la médecine ed. Philippe Artières et Emmanuel da Silva (Paris: Kimé, 2001).

œGulliver Solitude: the Paradoxes of Swift Anti-Individualism,� Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation 42:1 2001.

œThe Pressure of the Street: Habermas Fear of the Masses�, Masses, Classes, Counterpublics , ed. Mike Hill and Warren Montag (London: Verso, 2001)

œSpirits Armed and Unarmed: Derrida Specters �, Ghostly Demarcations ed. Michael Sprinker (London: Verso, 1999). (Spanish translation, 2002, Turkish translation 2004, Portuguese translation 2008, Italian translation 2009)

œModernité de Spinoza� Magazine Littéraire 370, Novembre 1998 (Portuguese translation, 2006).

Preface to Etienne Balibar, Spinoza and Politics (London: Verso,  1998).

œAlthusser Nominalism: Structure and Singularity 1962-1966". Rethinking Marxism 10:3 Fall 1998.

œCan the Subaltern Speak and Other Transcendental Questions,� Cultural Logic   1.2 1998. (French translation, Multitudes , 2006).       

 œSecond Response to Carole Fabricant� (on Swift), Eighteenth-Century Fiction ,  9:3, 1997.

œThe Universalization of Whiteness: Racism and Enlightenment�, Whiteness: A Critical Reader , ed. Mike Hill (New York: New York University Press, 1997).

œResponse to Carole Fabricant� (on Swift), Eighteenth-Century Fiction , 9:1, 1996.

œThe 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.        

"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  Johanna Smith (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991, Second Edition, 2000).

"The Emptiness of a Distance Taken: Freud, Lacan, Althusser" Rethinking Marxism ,         Spring, 1991 (Korean Translation, 1994).

"Spinoza: Politics in a World Without Transcendence", Rethinking Marxism , Fall 1989.

(Swedish translation, 2004).                    

"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 Invention of Consciousness , (Verso, 2013)

(with Willi Goetschel) Jacques Derrida, œLanguage and the Discourse of Method,� 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 Pécheux, "Discourse: Structure or Event?" Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture .  (Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1988).  Revised version in Ian Parker, ed. Lacanian Discourse Analysis (forthcoming)

Pierre Macherey, "History and Novel in Balzac's The Peasants ."  Minnesota Review , Spring 1986.