On Materialism keyword-military Tracing humanity’s modern fall to

Tracing humanity’s modern fall to the very rationality that was to be its liberation

this book will prove indispensible to students of his thought and structural anthropology more generally

He demonstrates that it is possible to affirm a universalizing theory without succumbing to Eurocentrism or reductionism

Nairn shows how its forms and content are shifting

For all their variety in theme and occasion

On Materialism keyword-military Tracing humanity’s modern fall toThis 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