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On Materialism (Paperback)
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This polemical work presents to the English-speaking world one of
the most original philosophical thinkers to have emerged within
post-war Europe. Sebastiano Timpanaro is an Italian classical
philologist by training, an author of scholarly studies on the
nineteenth-century poet Leopardi, and a Marxist by conviction. With
great force and wit, On Materialism sets itself against what it
sees as the virtually universal tendency within western Marxism
since the war, to dissociate historical materialism from biological
or physical materialism. Whereas the philosophical legacy of the
later Engels has been decried by most prominent Marxists since the
1920s, Timpanaro eloquently defends its essential purpose and
relevance, by unfashionably re-emphasising the permanent weight of
nature within history. In doing so, he returns to the heritage of
Lucretius and Leopardi, and argues for a more consistent
materialism that is at once more pessimistic and more hedonistic
than any other contemporary version of Marxism. Timpanaro
emphasises the insuperable limits of frailty and mortality as
unalterable conditions of society whose transformation is the goal
of revolutionary socialism. Timpanaro vigorously attacks what he
regards as the widespread entente between a diluted Marxism and a
fashionable idealism in the west, whether in the form of an
"existentialist" or a "structuralist" union of the two. The
aversion of the former to the work of Darwin and Engels receives a
spirited refutation, no less than the indulgence of the latter
towards the work of Saussure or Levi-Strauss. A special
introduction written for this English edition deals with the
phenomenon of the recent revival of "vulgar materialism" in the
Anglo-Saxon world, in the fields of psychology and anthropology,
and its relationship to racism. On Materialism will be one of the
central focuses of cultural and intellectual controversy within and
beyond Marxism in the next decade.
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