Tom Geue teaches classical studies at the Australian National University. He is the author of Major Corrections: An Intellectual Biography of Sebastiano Timpanaro.
As well as being one of the most creative postwar Marxist thinkers, Sebastiano Timpanaro was also a dedicated activist. His life on the left spanned the entire postwar history of Italian socialism, from the Liberation to the end of the Cold War.
Italian Marxist Sebastiano Timpanaro published a dazzling, unconventional series of works, ranging from the natural sciences to the problem with Freud’s psychological theories. Timpanaro’s versatility and heterodox spirit should be an example for today’s left.