Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 11:27:06 -0400
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Hardt-Negri's "Empire": a Marxist critique, part two


>as for my 'mis-reading', i'm currently in the process of translating a two  
>volume work of negri's into english and he has agreed to my writing the
intro  
>and notes. he agreed to this after i sent him my PhD in which my reading of  
>negri played a central role. i am in contact with him regularly by mail
also.  
>either he has misunderstood my reading of his work or he has failed to
notice  
>what you have so brilliantly detected, ie. my "talent for mis-reading".  
>perhaps there is a third possibility, but it escapes me 
> 
> 
>matteomandarini-AT-aol.com 

The third possibility is that you have the same relation to him that any
PhD student has to any powerful professor. That is why Spinoza chose
lens-grinding rather than academia, so he would not be constrained in
articulating his ideas.

Louis Proyect
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