Author : Antonio Negri
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231500661
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Book Synopsis Spinoza for Our Time by : Antonio Negri
Download or read book Spinoza for Our Time written by Antonio Negri and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.