The perseverance of contradiction, between Spinoza and Marx

MARIANA DE GAINZA

Conferencia; Spinoza after Marx; 2021

University of Pennsylvania

Thinking in the unsolved enigma of what would be such a thing as a ´materialist dialectics´, it is possible to say that the critique of contradiction is still productive as it causes a displacement, that is, not a cancellation, but a movement whose questioning force comes from the fact that it does not lose sight of those coordinates from which it departs. So it could be possible to rethink the logic of contradiction together with an internal contra-movement, acting against those effects that are immanent to its logic –and that allows an approximation to various contemporary conceptions of antagonism