This workshop will examine the extraordinarily rich confluence of thought existing between Spinoza, Marx, and Althusser, addressing topics such as anti-humanism, theoretical practice, dialectics and epistemology, immanent causality, the desire of Capital, and the politics of the conjuncture.

Programme:

1:00–2:00 pm:    Juan Domingo Sanchez Estop (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
“Topography: The Hidden Link between Marx, Althusser and Spinoza“

2:00–3:00 pm:    Nick Nesbitt (Princeton University, Institute of Philosophy, CAS)
“Althusser was Right: On the Role of Spinoza, and the Suppression of Hegel in Capital” 

3:00–4:00 pm:   Petr Kužel (Institute of Philosophy, CAS) 
“Marx’s Ongoing Break with Hegel: Spinoza, Althusser, and the Anti-Empiricist Method of Capital”

Presenters:

Juan Domingo Sanchez Estop is the author of Althusser and Spinoza: Detours and Returns (Edinburgh 2025)

Nick Nesbitt is the author of Reading Capital’s Materialist Dialectic: Marx, Spinoza, and the Althusserians (Brill 2024)

Petr Kužel is the author of Filosofie Louise Althussera (Filosofia 2014)

You may find the official invitation here.