Subversive Spinoza
Antonio Negri

In 'Subversive Spinoza', philosopher and political activist 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.

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, and modernity and postmodernity. This collection of essays extends, clarifies and revises the argument of Negri's influential 1981 book 'The Savage Anomaly: The Power of Spinoza's Metaphysics and Politics' and links it directly to his recent work on constituent power, time and empire.

Acknowledegements Editor's preface Conventions and abbreviationsas I. Spinoza: Five reasons for his contemporaneity II.The 'Political Treatise',or, the foundation of modern democracy III. 'Reliqua desiderantur': A conjecture for a definition of the concept of democracy in the final Spinoza IV. Between infinity and community: Notes on materialism in Spinoza and Leopardi V. Spinoza's anti-modernity VI. The 'return to Spinoza' and the return of communism VII. Democracy and eternity in Spinoza Postface To conclude: Spinoza and the postmoderns