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A fresh take on this critical philosopher.<br> <br> In this essential rereading of Spinoza's (1632-1677) philosophical and political writings, Negri positions this thinker within the historical context of the development of the modern state and its attendant political economy. Through a close examination of Spinoza, Negri reveals him as unique among his contemporaries for his nondialectical approach to social organization in a bourgeois age. <p>A re-reading of Spinoza's philosophical and political writings within the historical context of the development of the modern state and its attendant political economy.</p> <p>Spinoza is the anomaly. In the century that saw the birth of bourgeois ideology and the bourgeois State, Spinoza discovered an alternative mode of thought and practice, a nondialectical path to social organization and liberation. Spinoza's work illuminates an alternative to the bourgeois arc of Modern thought that extends from Hobbes to Rousseau and Hegel. Spinozian ontology presents an absolutely positive and univocal conception of being, founded on the material power of its own constitutive force. It is a "savage" conception in that it rejects any preformed model of

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Author

Antonio Negri; translation by Michael Hardt

Publisher

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816636709

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Fiction, History, Philosophy