Description: Diego Fusaro's monograph on the influence of Epicurus on Marx's thought is multilayered. It not only explains Epicurean thought and how it impacted the young Marx, but also manages to do unto Marx what Marx did unto Epicurus.
Brief description: diego fusaro (Turin, Italy, 1983) teaches History of Philosophy at the Institute for Higher Strategic and Political Studies, Milan, Italy. He studies the philosophy of history and the structures of historical temporality, particularly focusing on Fichte, Hegel, Marx and the German 'history of concepts'. He is the director of the I Cento Talleri series on philosophy published by Il Prato and is the editor of the online project La filosofia e i suoi eroi (Philosophy and its heroes - www.filosofico.net). He founded the association and review Interesse Nazionale (National Interest - www.interessenazionale. net). Among his most recent books are Bentornato Marx! (2009), Essere senza tempo. Accelerazione della storia e della vita (2010), Coraggio (2012), Minima mercatalia. Filosofia e capitalismo (2012), Idealismo e prassi. Fichte, Marx e Gentile (2013), Il futuro è nostro (2014), Fichte e l'anarchia del commercio (2014), Antonio Gramsci (2015), Pensare altrimenti (2016), Marx, again! (The Pertinent Press, 2017) and The Place of Possibility (The Pertinent Press, 2017). He writes for the Italian newspapers La Stampa and Il Fatto Quotidiano and makes frequent appearances on Italian TV, sharing his political analyses with the general public. Whereas Enrico Galavotti, in his Esegeti di Marx (2015), describes Diego Fusaro as 'the rising star of contemporary Italian Marxist philosophy', Fusaro defines himself as an 'independent disciple of Hegel and Marx'.