The Spinoza-Machiavelli Encounter

Vittorio Morfino is an Associate Professor in the History of Philosophy at the University of Milan-Bicocca and Director of programme at the College International de Philosophie, Paris. He has published extensively on Spinoza, Machiavelli, Marx, German Idealism, Leibniz and Althusser. His most recent book is Plural Temporality: Transindividuality and the Aleatory Between Spinoza and Althusser (Brill, 2014). Dave Mesing is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Villanova University, where he is preparing a dissertation on strategy and political theory.