Warren Montag
Warren Montag is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California. He is known primarily for his work on twentieth-century French theory, especially Althusser and his circle, as well as his studies of the philosopher Spinoza.
Overview
Montag's work has focused on the origins and internal contradictions of political liberalism and individualism, and has demonstrated, following the suggestions of Étienne Balibar, the existence of "a fear of the masses" in the classic texts of seventeenth century liberal thought. More recently, he has shifted to a study of the emergence of the concept of the market in the work of Adam Smith. Montag received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University. He has published three books and three edited collections, and has translated many essays by Althusser. In addition, Montag has published more than forty essays. He resides in Los Angeles and is married with two children, Jacob Montag and Elisa Montag.Publications
Books
- Selected Essays.
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Journal Special Issues
Essays
- "Making Subjection Visible: The Materialist Effects of 1968," Crisis and Critique, 5:2 2018.
- "Between Citizen and Subject," Radical Philosophy 2.02.
- "Individuals Interpellable and Uninterpellable," Postmodern Culture.
- "Who/What, Before/After: the Unrest of the Subject," Cultural Critique 83, 139-155.
- , "Is the Novel Literature?" Novel Novel: A Forum on Fiction 50, 338-350.
- , "The Figure in the Carpet," PMLA, 2017.
- "Legacies of the Russian Revolution: Power, Equality, Right," Crisis and Critique 4:2, 2017.
- "The Last Instance: Resnick and Wolff at the Point of Heresy," Knowledge, Class, and Economics: Marxism without Guarantees. Ed. Rob Garnett. London: Routledge, 2017.
- "" Mediations.
- "Commanding the Body in Spinoza's Ethics." Spinoza's Authority, Ed. K. Kordela and D. Vardoulakis. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
- "'To Shatter All the Classical Theories of Causality': Immanent and Absent Causes in Althusser and Lacan." ed. N. Nesbitt. Durham: Duke University Press, 2017.
- "A Parallelism of Consciousness and Property: Balibar's Reading of Locke," Balibar and the Citizen Subject. Ed. Montag and Elsayed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
- "The Prisoners of Starvation, or Necessitas dat Legem." New Formations. 2017, Issue 89/90.
- "'Uno mero esecutore': Moses, Fortuna and Occasione in The Prince," Machiavelli's The Prince: Five Centuries of History, Conflict an Politics. Ed. F. Del Lucchese and V. Morfino.
- "From Clinamen to Conatus: Deleuze, Lucretius and Spinoza," in Lucretius and Modernity, ed. Jacques Lezra. Palgrave Macmillan. 2016. French Translation.
- "Discourse and Decree: Spinoza, Althusser, Pêcheux," Cahiers du GRM 7, 2015. Spanish Translation 2016.
- "Althusser's Lenin," Diacritics 2015. French version, 2015.
- "Althusser's Authorless Theater," Differences 2015. Spanish Translation 2017.
- "Before the Beginning: On the question of Origins in Hegel" PMLA 2015.
- "Althusser and the Problem of Eschatology" Althusser and Theology. Ed Agon Hamza. London: Bloomsbury, 2016. Spanish translation 2017.
- "Rancière's Lost Object" Cultural Critique. vol 83, Winter 2013. 139-155.
- "Althusser: Law and the Threat of the Outside," Althusser and Law, ed. Laurent du Sutter. Routledge, 2013.
- "Macherey entre le quotidien et l'utopie," La Revue des Livres.
- "Between Interpellation and Immunization: Althusser, Balibar and Esposito," Postmodern Culture, Vol. 33, Number 3, 2012. Spanish translation 2014.
- "Conjuncture, Conflict, War: Machiavelli Between Althusser and Foucault," Encountering Althusser, ed. Peter Thomas. Continuum, 2012.
- "Hegel, sive Spinoza, or Hegel as his Own True Other," Hegel after Spinoza, ed. Hasana Sharp and Jason Smith. Continuum 2012. Italian translation, 2014.
- "El afuera de la ley: Schmitt, Kelsen y la Resistencia legal a la ley," Youkali 13.
- "To discompose and disorder the whole machine of the world:" Adam Smith, Epicurus and Lucretius," Rivista di storia della filosofia 67:2 : 267-276.
- Introduction to Louis Althusser, "Student Problems," Radical Philosophy 170, Nov-Dec 2011.
- "Immanence, Transcendence and the Trace: Derrida between Levinas and Spinoza," Badmidbar: a Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 2, Autumn 2011.
- "Lucretius Hebraizant: Spinoza's Reading of Ecclesiastes," European Journal of Philosophy, 20. Spanish translation, Spinoza contemporaneo. Ed. Galcerán and Espinoza. Madrid: Tierradenadie ediciones, 2009.
- "Louis Althusser." The Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy. Vol. 6, ed. Alan Schrift. London: Acumen Press, forthcoming.
- “The Late Althusser: Materialism of the Encounter or Philosophy of Nothing?” Culture, Theory and Critique, Vol. 51, Issue.2, pp. 157–70, 2010; Religgere Il Capitale: La lezione di Louis Althusser. Edizione Mimesis, forthcoming; Problemi, forthcoming.
- "Interjecting Empty Spaces: Imagination and Interpretation in Spinoza's Tractatus Theologica-Politicus" in Spinoza Now ed. Dimitris Vardoulakis, University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
- "Spectres d' Althusser," La revue internationale des livres et des idées, janvier-février 2010, no. 15. English version, Historical Materialism.
- "Imitating the Affects of Beasts: Interest and Inhumanity in Spinoza," differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. Vol 20, n.3-4, 2009. .
- "War and the Market: The Global South in the Origins of Neo-liberalism." The Global South, April 2009, Vol.3, no.1.
- "Locke et le concept d'inhuman." Multitudes. no.33, Eté 2008.
- "Semites, ou la fiction de l'autre." La revue internationale des livres et des idees. mai-juin 2008, no.5
- "Tumultuous Combinations: Transindividuality in Adam Smith and Spinoza," Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 282007.
- "El peligroso derecho a la existencia: la necroeconomia de Von Mises y Hayek." Youkali. 2 November 2006.
- "Necro-Economics: Adam Smith and Death in the Life of the Universal," Radical Philosophy, Youkali 1 April 2006, Critica Marxista 23, 2006.
- "Jonathan Swift." Encyclopedia of British Literary History, Oxford University Press, 2006.
- "Louis Althusser: the Intellectual and the Conjuncture." Marxism, Intellectuals and Politics, ed. David Bates, London: Palgrave, 2006. Abridged version in Il Manifesto. Nov. 9, 2006.
- "Foucault: the Immanence of Law in Power." Michel Foucault and Social Control, ed. Alain Beaulieu and David Gabbard, Lexington Press, 2005; French version Editions Harmattan, forthcoming).
- "Foucault and the Problematic of Origins: Althusser’s Reading of Folie et déraison." Borderlands 4.2, 2005. Actuel Marx ; Theseis.
- "Who’s Afraid of the Multitude: Between the Individual and the State." South Atlantic Quarterly. Slagmark n.39 2004 ; Quaderni Materialisti n.2 2004 ; Theseis.
- "Spinoza's Spirit: the Concept of the Trace in Levinas and Derrida" Specters of Derrida, ed. Julian Wolfreys. Oltrecorrente.
- "On the Function of the Concept of Origin: Althusser’s Reading of Locke", Current Continental Theory and Early Modern Philosophy, ed. Stephen Daniels.
- "Materiality, Singularity, Subject: Response to Callari, Hardt, Parker and Smith", Symposium on Louis Althusser, Rethinking Marxism.
- "Politics: Transcendent or Immanent? A response to Miguel Vatter," Theory and Event.
- "Der neue Spinoza" Immaterielle Arbeit und imperiale Souveräinität ed. Thomas Atzert and Jost Müller.
- "La dialectique à la cantonade: Althusser devant l’art." Sartre, Althusser, Lukacs ed. Eustache Kouvelakis.
- "Towards a Conception of Racism without Race: Foucault and Contemporary Bio-politics," Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy.
- "From the Standpoint of the Masses: Antonio Negri’s Insurgencies" Historical Materialism 9 2002.
- "Descartes and Spinoza" and "Althusser" The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Literary Criticism and Theory 1945-2000, ed. Julian Wolfreys.
- "Vers une conception du racisme sans race: Foucault et la biopolitique contemporaine", Foucault et la médecine ed. Philippe Artières et Emmanuel da Silva.
- "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
- "Spinoza and the Concept of the Shekhinah." Jewish Themes in Spinoza's Philosophy, ed. Lenn Goodman and Heidi Ravven..
- Preface to Etienne Balibar, Spinoza and Politics.
- "Althusser's Nominalism: Structure and Singularity 1962-1966." Rethinking Marxism 10:3.
- "Spirits Armed and Unarmed: Derrida's Specters", Ghostlier Demarcations ed. Michael Sprinker.
- "", Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 10:1, 1997.
- "", Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 9:1, 1996.
- "The Universalization of Whiteness: Racism and Enlightenment", Whiteness: A Critical Reader, ed. Mike Hill.
- "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." Marxism and Postmodernism: Essays in the Althusserian Tradition, eds. Antonio Callari and David Ruccio..
- "A Process without a Subject or Goal: How to Read Althusser's Autobiography", Marxism in the New World Order: Crises and Possibilities, ed. Antonio Callari .
- "Althusser and Spinoza Against Hermeneutics: Interpretation or Intervention?" The Althusserian Legacy, eds. E. Ann Kaplan and Michael Sprinker.
- "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.
- "The Emptiness of a Distance Taken: Freud, Lacan, Althusser." Rethinking Marxism, Spring, 1991.
- "Spinoza: Politics in a World Without Transcendence", Rethinking Marxism, Fall 1989..
- "What is at Stake in the Debate on Postmodernism", Postmodernism and Its Discontents,..
- "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.
Translations
- Louis Althusser, "Letter on Gramsci," Decalages 2.1.
- Etienne Balibar, "Schmitt's Hobbes, Hobbes' Schmitt," Balibar and the Citizen Subject.
- Etienne Balibar, Identity and Difference: Locke's Invention of Consciousness,.
- Jacques Derrida, "Language and the Discourse of Method," Badmidbar: a Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 2, Autumn 2011.
- Louis Althusser, "On Marx and Freud." Rethinking Marxism, Spring, 1991.
- Louis Althusser, Philosophy and the Spontaneous Philosophy of the Scientists: And Other Essays,.
- Michel Pêcheux, "Discourse: Structure or Event?" Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture..
- Pierre Macherey, "History and Novel in Balzac's The Peasants." Minnesota Review, Spring 1986.
Literary Translations
- Jorge Luis Borges, "Clouds," Ambit 2019
Interviews, and Shorter Scholarly and Political Texts
- Althusser, Spinoza and Revolution in Philosophy, Voices of the Left, London: Redmarks, 2019.
- , Left Voice, March 11, 2019.
- "," Left Voice, October 16, 2019.
- ,, 2018. Papiers Althusser.
- to "Louis Althusser - 'Michel Verret's Article on the "student May"'
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- "" The Philosophical Salon
Endnotes and references