Massimiliano Tomba has published several texts on the political philosophy of Kant, Hegel, the postHegelians, Marx and Walter Benjamin, among them Krise und Kritik bei Bruno Bauer. Kategorien des Politischen im nachhegelschen Denken, Peter Lang, 2005; La vera politica. Kant e Benjamin: la possibilità della giustizia, Quodlibet, 2006; Marx’s Temporalities, Brill, 2013; Attraverso la piccolo porta. Quattro studi su Walter Benjamin, Mimesis, 2017. Currently, he is working on a book titled: Insurgent Universality. He is Professor in the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California, Santa Cruz.