Spinoza to be focus of philosophy lecture

Daniel Selcer of Duquesne University will speak on ?Matter and Individuation in Spinoza: Towards a dynamic materialism,? at 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, at 8 p.m. in the Pohndorff Room of Scribner Library at Skidmore College.

Selcer, who lectures extensively at colleges and universities across the country, is known for his work in early modern philosophy (especially Leibniz and Spinoza) and its impact on German Idealism (especially Hegel), as well as late structuralism and poststructuralist thought (especially Althusser, Foucault, and Deleuze). His book Philosophy and the Book: Early Modern Figures of Philosophical Inscription (forthcoming from Continuum) investigates the role played by images of inscription and reading in 17th-century continental philosophical texts.

The talk is free and open to the public. For more information, call 580-5402.