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Spinoza for our time : politics and postmodernity / Antonio Negri ; translated by William McCuaig

Author
Negri, Antonio, 1933-
Uniform Title
Spinoza et nous. English
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]
Copyright Date
©2013
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxii, 125 pages).
Additional Creators
McCuaig, William, 1949-
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Spinoza and us -- Spinoza: a heresy of immanence and of democracy -- Potency and ontology: Heidegger or Spinoza -- Multitude and singularity in the development of the Spinoza's political thought -- Spinoza: a sociology of the affects.
Summary
Antonio Negri, one of the world's leading scholars on Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) and his contemporary legacy, offers a straightforward explanation of the philosopher's elaborate arguments and a persuasive case for his ongoing relevance. Responding to a resurgent interest in Spinoza's thought and its potential application to contemporary global issues, Negri demonstrates the thinker's special value to politics, philosophy, and related disciplines. Negri's work is both a return to and an advancement of his initial affirmation of Spinozian thought in The Savage Anomaly. He further defends his understanding of the philosopher as a proto-postmodernist, or a thinker who is just now, with the advent of the postmodern, becoming contemporary. Negri also connects Spinoza's theories to recent trends in political philosophy, particularly the reengagement with Carl Schmitt's "political theology," and the history of philosophy, including the argument that Spinoza belongs to a "radical enlightenment." By positioning Spinoza as a contemporary revolutionary intellectual, Negri addresses and effectively defeats twentieth-century critiques of the thinker waged by Jacques Derrida, Alain Badiou, and Giorgio Agamben.
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ISBN
9780231500661 (electronic bk.)
0231500661 (electronic bk.)
9781306310444 (MyiLibrary)
130631044X
9780231160469 (cloth : alk. paper)
0231160461
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-110) and index.
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