Re: Negri, Spinoza

["Bryan A. Alexander" <bnalexan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Two questions:
        1. Why jettison the state/civil society distinction?  sorry if
this comes late - my mailer has been holding onto some posts for days at
a time.
        2. What do you all make of Marx's concrete use of Spinoza, hm?



Bryan Alexander                                 Department of English
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On Thu, 15 Feb 1996, J Laari wrote:

> David,
>
> > Just as the State/Civil Society couplet must be abandoned,
> > so must the opposition between the material and the ideal
>
> Hmm? why then:
>
> > ground Guattari and Negri share -- Spinozism. Spinozism is
>
> Spinoza if anyone was great theoretician of material vs. ideal opposition
> or distinction!
>
> Would you tell why you think that opposition between the material and the
> ideal should be abandoned?
>
> And pardon my conservative side, but Evald Ilyenkov wrote nice peace on
> "The Problem of Ideal" [Voprosy Filosofii 6-7/1979]. I don't know
> whether that essay has been translated in English. If that is the case,
> then I recommend to take a look at it. E.I. tries to sketch both 'short
> history' of the problem of ideal (from Plato to empiricism to Hegel;
> oddly Spinoza lacks in his sketch) and the importance of the category of
> ideal to materialism. I try to write few lines more about that essay
> sometime later (especially if there is no English translation).
>
> I think I should try to explain also my original question to Louis. That
> comes in another post.
>
> Yours, Jukka L
>
>
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