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Dr. Warren Montag


 

 

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montag@oxy.edu
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South Swan 117

2008-2009 Courses


Areas of Specialization:

Theory, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature, the Enlightenment, Literature and Philosophy 1600-1800, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Twentieth-Century French Philosophy.

Publications:

Books
Louis Althusser (London: Palgrave, 2002)

Bodies, Masses, Power: Spinoza and his Contemporaries,(London: Verso, 1999).

(Spanish translation, Ediciones Tierra de Nadie, forthcoming; Italian translation, Edizioni Ghibili, forthcoming)

The Unthinkable Swift: The Spontaneous Philosophy of a Church of England Man, (London: Verso, 1994).

(Co-Editor) Masses, Classes and The Public Sphere (London: Verso, 2001).

(Editor) In a Materialist Way: Selected Essays by Pierre Macherey (London: Verso, 1998).

(Co-Editor) The New Spinoza (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997).

 Essays:

"Tumultuous Combinations: Transindividuality in Adam Smith and Spinoza," Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal (forthcoming).

"Necro-Economics: Adam Smith and Death in the Life of the Universal," Radical Philosophy (forthcoming), Youkali (Spanish translation, forthcoming).

"Jonathan Swift," Encyclopedia of British Literary History, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

"Louis Althusser: the Intellectual and the Conjuncture" Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics, ed. David Bates and Paul Reynolds, London: Palgrave, forthcoming.

"Foucault: the Immanence of Law in Power," Michel Foucault and Social Control, ed. Alain Beaulieu and David Gabbard, (English version, University of Toronto Press, forthcoming; French version Editions Harmattan, forthcoming).

"Foucault and the Problematic of Origins: Althusser’s Reading of Folie et déraison" Actuel Marx (French trans. 2004); Theseis (Greek trans. 2004).

"Who’s Afraid of the Multitude: Between the Individual and the State," South Atlantic Quarterly (forthcoming). Slagmark n. 39 2004 (Danish trans.); Quaderni Materialisti n. 2 2004 (Italian trans.); Theseis (Greek trans. 2004).

"Spinoza’s Spirit: the Concept of the Trace in Levinas and Derrida" Specters of Derrida, ed. Julian Wolfreys (SUNY Press, forthcoming). Oltrecorrente (Italian trans. forthcoming).

"On the Function of the Concept of Origin: Althusser’s Reading of Locke", Current Continental Theory and Early Modern Philosophy, ed. Stephen Daniels (Northwestern U P: forthcoming).

"Materiality, Singularity, Subject: Response to Callari, Hardt, Parker and Smith," Symposium on Louis Althusser, Rethinking Marxism (17:2, April 2005).

"Politics: Transcendent or Immanent? A response to Miguel Vatter," Theory and Event (7:4, 2004).

"Der neue Spinoza" Immaterielle Arbeit und imperiale Souveräinität ed. Thomas Atzert and Jost Müller (Munster: Westfälisches Dampfboot, 2004).

"La dialectique à la cantonade: Althusser devant l’art" Sartre, Althusser, Lukacs ed. Eustache Kouvelakis (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2004).

"Towards a Conception of Racism without Race: Foucault and Contemporary Bio-politics," Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy (2002).

"Spinoza and the Concept of the Shekhinah" Jewish Themes in Spinoza’s Philosophy,ed.

Lenn Goodman and Heidi Ravven (Albany: SUNY Press, 2002).

"From the Standpoint of the Masses: Antonio Negri’s Insurgencies" (review essay) Historical Materialism 9 2002).

"Descartes and Spinoza" and "Althusser" The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Literary Criticism and Theory 1945-2000, ed. Julian Wolfreys (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U P, 2002).

"Vers une conception du racisme sans race: Foucault et la biopolitique contemporaine," Foucault et la médecine ed. Philippe Artières et Emmanuel da Silva (Paris: Kimé, 2001).

"Gulliver’s Solitude: the Paradoxes of Swift’s Anti-Individualism,"Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation 42:1 2001.

"The Pressure of the Street: Habermas’s Fear of the Masses", Masses, Classes, Counterpublics, ed. Mike Hill and Warren Montag (London: Verso, 2001)

"Spirits Armed and Unarmed: Derrida’s Specters", Ghostly Demarcations ed. Michael Sprinker (London: Verso, 1999). (Spanish translation, 2002, Turkish translation 2004)

"Modernité de Spinoza" Magazine Littéraire 370, Novembre 1998.

Preface to Etienne Balibar, Spinoza and Politics (London: Verso, 1998).

"Althusser’s Nominalism: Structure and Singularity 1962-1966". Rethinking Marxism 10:3 Fall 1998.

"Second Response to Carole Fabricant", Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 9:3, 1997.

"The Universalization of Whiteness: Racism and Enlightenment", Whiteness: A Critical Reader, ed. Mike Hill (New York: New York University Press, 1997).

"Response to Carole Fabricant" (on Swift), Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 9:1, 1996.

"The Soul is the Prison of the Body: Althusser and Foucault 1970-1975", Yale French Studies, Fall 1995.

"Beyond Force and Consent: Hobbes, Spinoza, Althusser" in Marxism and Postmodernism: Essays in the Althusserian Tradition, eds. Antonio Callari and David Ruccio (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 1995). (Korean translation 1998, Norwegian translation forthcoming).

"A Process without a Subject or Goal(s): How to Read Althusser's Autobiography", Marxism in the New World Order: Crises and Possibilities, ed. Antonio Callari (New York: Guilford Press,1995)

(Korean translation 1996; Greek translation 1998).

"Althusser and Spinoza Against Hermeneutics: Interpretation or Intervention?", in The Althusserian Legacy, eds. E. Ann Kaplan and Michael Sprinker (London: Verso, 1993).

"The Workshop of Filthy Creation: A Marxist Reading of Frankenstein in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism, eds. Ross C. Murfin and Johanna Smith (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991, Second Edition, 2000).

"The Emptiness of a Distance Taken: Freud, Lacan, Althusser" Rethinking Marxism, Spring, 1991 (Korean Translation, 1994).

"Spinoza: Politics in a World Without Transcendence", Rethinking Marxism, Fall 1989.

(Swedish translation, 2004).

"What is at Stake in the Debate on Postmodernism", Postmodernism and Its Discontents, (London: Verso, 1988).

(Korean translation 1990, Portugese translation 1993)

"Macherey and Literary Analysis", Minnesota Review, Spring 1986.

"Lacan and Feminine Sexuality", Quarterly Review of Film Studies, Fall 1985.

"Marxism and Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Encounter", Minnesota Review, Fall 1984 (Korean Translation 1992).

"Michel Pécheux: 1938-1983," Minnesota Review, Fall 1984.

 

 2008-09 Courses

Fall 08

ECLS 188
ECLS 288
ECLS 390


Spring 09

ECLS 332
ECLS 378


 

Modern British Literary Traditions
Modern British Literary Traditions
Junior Seminar



18th Century Literature 1730-1800
Literature and Philosophy