Subversive 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.

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

AcknowledegementsEditor's prefaceConventions and abbreviationsasI. Spinoza: Five reasons for his contemporaneityII.The 'Political Treatise',or, the foundation of modern democracyIII. 'Reliqua desiderantur': A conjecture for a definition of the concept of democracy in the final SpinozaIV. Between infinity and community: Notes on materialism in Spinoza and LeopardiV. Spinoza's anti-modernityVI. The 'return to Spinoza' and the return of communismVII. Democracy and eternity in SpinozaPostfaceTo conclude: Spinoza and the postmoderns