Böcker av Jacques Lezra

On the Nature of Marx's Things traces to Marx's earliest writings a Lucretian practice that Lezra calls necrophilological translation.

In readings that link works of Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Descartes with current debates in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and literary and cultural criticism, the author reassesses the grounds of literary and philosophical history as a materialist practice of eventful reading.

Opening a methodological dialogue between Freud's work and Althusser's late understanding of aleatory materialism, the author shows how an ethic of terror, and in the political sphere a radically democratic republic, can be built on what he calls 'wild materialism'.