My undergraduate and early graduate background is largely in contemporary continental philosophy, but my recent focus has been on topics in early modern philosophy (especially those concerning Spinoza) and contemporary analytic metaphysics (especially those concerning properties, God, and moral freedom).


M. A. Istvan Jr.—poet, philosopher, provocateur—is an instructor of philosophy at Austin Community College and the current editor of Safe Space Press. His interests and publication history are wide-ranging, but a unifying focus of both his creative and scholarly work has been to describe and defend what he calls “the hive Being”: a neo-Spi…

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