The Undercurrent of Encounter Materialism (1982)

Abstract

It rains.
Let this book be, then, to begin with, a book about simple rain. Malebranchec asked himself: “Why does it rain on the sea, the big roads and the sand?”, given that this water from the sky that wets the crops from afar (and this is great) does not add anything to the sea water or is lost in the roads and beaches. This will not be a question of whether this rain is providential or counter-providential. This book deals, on the contrary, with another rain, with a profound theme that runs through the entire history of philosophy and that was fought and rejected as soon as it was stated: the “rain” (Lucretius) of Epicurus' atoms that fall parallel into the void , the “rain” of the parallelism of infinite attributes of Spinoza and other authors such as Machiavelli, Hobbes, Rousseau, Marx, Heidegger and Derrida.