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.