Subversive Spinoza: (UN) Contemporary Variations; Antonio Negri

by Edited by Timothy S. Murphy, Michael Hardt, Ted Stolze and Charles T. Wolfe

• ISBN13: 9780719066467
• ISBN10: 0719066468
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2004-11-27
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

InSubversive 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.

Author Biography

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

Editor's preface	vii
Editor's acknowledgements	xiii
Conventions and abbreviations	xv
I Spinoza: five reasons for his contemporaneity	1	(8)
II The Political Treatise, or, the foundation of modern democracy	9	(19)
III Reliqua desiderantur: a conjecture for a definition of the concept of democracy in the final Spinoza	28	(31)
IV Between infinity and community: notes on materialism in Spinoza and Leopardi	59	(20)
V Spinoza's anti-modernity	79	(15)
VI The 'return to Spinoza' and the return of communism	94	(7)
VII Democracy and eternity in Spinoza	101	(12)
Postface To conclude: Spinoza and the postmoderns	113	(6)
Index	119