AUT: New Negri collection on Spinoza

[David McInerney <borderlands@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Many on this list will probably be interested in the following new book
(details from Amazon.com)


Subversive Spinoza: (UN) Contemporary Variations : Antonio Negri
(Angelaki Humanities)
by Timothy S. Murphy (Editor), Charles T. Wolfe (Editor), Ted Stolze
(Editor), Michael Hardt (Editor)

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Edition: Paperback

Product Details

    * Paperback: 160 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 8.75 x 0.50 x 5.75
    * Publisher: Manchester University Press; (November 6, 2004)
    * ISBN: 0719066476

"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


Synopsis
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.

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.


Book Description
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.



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