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.

Contents:
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