Synopses & Reviews
In
Subversive Spinoza, Antonio Negri spells out the philosophical credo that inspired his radical renewal of Marxism and his compelling analysis of the modern state and the global economy by means of an inspiring reading of the challenging metaphysics of the seventeenth-century Dutch-Jewish philosopher Spinoza. For Negri, Spinoza's philosophy has never been more relevant than it is today to debates over individuality and community, democracy and resistance, modernity and postmodernity.
Review
"Negri renews our understanding of Spinozism in many regards...he is authentically and profoundly Spinozist."--Gilles Deleuze
"The savage power [of Negri's interpretation] upsets the ordinary frameworks through which we understand a philosophy, and not just Spinoza's--it forces us to re-read from a reverse angle, and in place of that doctrine we thought we knew so well, fixed in the immutable catalog of systems, it leads us to discover a living thought that in fact belongs to history, to our history."--Pierre Macherey
About the Author
Antonio Negri is an independent researcher and writer living in Rome.
Timothy S. Murphy is Associate Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma.
Michael Hardt is Associate Professor in the Literature Program at Duke University.
Ted Stolze is Lecturer in Philosophy at California State University, Hayward.
Charles T. Wolfe is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University.
Table of Contents
Acknowledegements * Editors preface * Conventions and abbreviationsas * Spinoza: Five reasons for his contemporaneity * The Political Treatise,or, the foundation of modern democracy * Reliqua desiderantur: A conjecture for a definition of the concept of democracy in the final Spinoza * Between infinity and community: Notes on materialism in Spinoza and Leopardi * Spinoza's anti-modernity * The return to Spinoza and the return of communism * Democracy and eternity in Spinoza * Postface * To conclude: Spinoza and the postmoderns