On Materialism
Timpanaro, Sebastiano / Garner, Lawrence![On Materialism](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/586/5861930/CHSBZCOP035861930.jpg)
This polemical work presents to the English-speaking world one of the most original philosophical thinkers to have emerged within post-war Europe. Sebastiano Timpanaro is an Italian classical philologist by training, an author of scholarly studies on the nineteenth-century poet Leopardi, and a Marxist by conviction. With great force and wit, On Materialism sets itself against what it sees as the virtually universal tendency within western Marx...