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Spinoza for Our Time: Politics and Postmodernity

Spinoza for Our Time: Politics and Postmodernity

Negri, Antonio
McCuaig, William
Gangle, Jonathan Rocco

Paperback

Series: Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and C

PhilosophyGeneral ChristianityGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0231224192
ISBN13: 9780231224192
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: Jan 13 2026
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.50 Depth: 7.00
Language: English

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 challenges twentieth-century critiques of the thinker waged by Jacques Derrida, Alain Badiou, and Giorgio Agamben.

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