An exhaustive account of the Spinoza-Machiavelli relationship and its relevance for contemporary philosophy
Vittorio Morfino draws out the implications of the dynamic Spinoza-Machiavelli encounter by focusing on the concepts of causality, temporality and politics. This allows him to think through the relationship between ontology and politics, leading to an understanding of history as a complex and plural interweaving of different rhythms.
This extraordinary book opens up new avenues for understanding both Machiavelli and Spinoza as well as early modern political philosophy and materialism.
Vittorio Morfino is a Senior Researcher in the History of Philosophy at the Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy. Dave Mesing is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Villanova University.

Vittorio Morfino is an Associate Professor in the History of Philosophy at the University of Milan-Bicocca and Director of programme at the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris. He has published extensively on Spinoza, Machiavelli, Marx, German Idealism, Leibniz and Althusser. His most recent book is Plural Temporality: Transindividuality and the Aleatory Between Spinoza and Althusser (Brill, 2014).

Dave Mesing is a PhD candidate in philosophy at Villanova University, where he is preparing a dissertation on strategy and political theory.

Abbreviations; Translator's Introduction: Unscripted Space, Devoured Time; Translator's Note and Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Machiavelli in Spinoza's Library and Texts; 2. Machiavelli's Implicit Presence in Spinoza's Texts; 3. Causality and Temporality Between Machiavelli and Spinoza; 4. Machiavelli and Spinoza: Theory of the Individual as Antiphilosophy of History; Conclusion.