- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (11 Jan 1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0816618763
- ISBN-13: 978-0816618767
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,032,277 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book is 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. The central thesis of the book revolves around the assertion of a series of anomalies unique to Spinoza's situation, including: that his philosophy has never been adequately integrated into the western tradition because it represents a critique of subsequent philosophy and other institutionalized forms of knowledge; that the Netherlands was anomalous as a Spanish colony as well as a forerunner of European colonialism and capitalist development; and that Spinoza, in his peculiar situation between the Jewish, Dutch, and Hispanic cultures, was anomalous to them all. These "anomalies" are the focus of a close analysis of Spinoza's surviving writings, including his letters, as well as the critical work of Gueroulf, Wolfson, Matherson, Deleuze, Hecker, Macherey, Kolakowski, and other scholars who have contributed to the renewed interest in Spinoza in recent years.Negri makes a historical argument that stresses a philosophical affiliation running from Machiavelli to Spinoza to Marx, aiming to counter the dominant theorists of statehood who are traditionally considered to extend from Hobbes to Rousseau and Hegel.
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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.
"Negri's book on Spinoza, written in prison, is a great book that renews our understanding of Spinoza in many regards. Negri is authentically and profoundly Spinozian." Gilles Deleuze
"In Michael Hardt's excellent translation of Antonio Negri's The Savage Anomaly, American readers finally have access to one of the most important pieces of 'prison writing' to come out of Europe since Gramsci." Radical Philosophy Review of Books
After living in exile in France for nearly fourteen years, Antonio Negri is currently serving a jail sentence in Italy, his home country, for his political activism in the 1970s. His conviction, which was based on the substance of his writings, led Michel Foucault to ask, "Isn't he in prison simply for being an intellectual?" Negri's works in English include Insurgencies (1999) and, with Michael Hardt, Labor of Dionysus (1994) (both published by Minnesota) and Empire. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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