Massimiliano Tomba | “Nothing to Expect but a Tanning”: Bodies at Work
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The Value of Marx’s Capital
Massimiliano Tomba is Professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Previously, he taught political philosophy at the University of Padua. He has published several texts on the political philosophy of Kant, Hegel, the post-Hegelians, Marx, and Walter Benjamin, among them Krise und Kritik bei Bruno Bauer: Kategorien des Politischen im nachhegelschen Denken (2005); La vera politica. Kant e Benjamin: La possibilità della giustizia (2006); Marx’s Temporalities (2013); Attraverso la piccolo porta: Quattro studi su Walter Benjamin (2017); and Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity (2019).
Professor Tomba will mostly discuss Chapters 4, 5, and 6 of Capital, Vol. 1 (Penguin edition) in his talk. Attendees are invited to (re-)visit these passages before Wednesday in preparation for the conversation.
