Intersubjectivity or Transindividuality

Intersubjectivity or Transindividuality examines several key moments of modern and contemporary philosophical thought, reading them in light of the alternative between the categories of intersubjectivity and transindividuality – between a philosophy that poses the space of interiority of the ego as a logical and ontological prius and a philosophy that radically conceives of relations as constitutive. The book’s chapters explore the different variations of this alternative, turning to Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Stirner, and Husserl on the one hand, and Spinoza, Marx, Freud, Simondon, Althusser, Pêcheux, and Balibar on the other. These figures offer the theoretical material for assuming a political position from a transindividual viewpoint: the critique of the category of intersubjectivity as the expression of a philosophy of possessive individualism.

Vittorio Morfino teaches the history of philosophy at the University of Milan. His research focuses on the materialist tradition and theories of temporality and relationality in modern metaphysics and the Marxist tradition. Dave Mesing is an adjunct professor of philosophy at Villanova University. He has translated several works on topics in the history of philosophy and the Marxist tradition.