From: "cwright" <cwright-AT-21stcentury.net> Subject: Re: AUT: Explications of The Savage Anomaly Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 15:46:59 -0500 Hey Nate, thanks! I forgot about Hardt's dis, which I have bookmarked. I will forward the Amnesty for Toni Negri and see if he has not already gone over it, plus the reference you gave me. Cheers, Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nate Holdren" <nateholdren-AT-hotmail.com> To: <aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu> Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 3:07 PM Subject: Re: AUT: Explications of The Savage Anomaly > Hi Chris- > > You probably know this, but there's a bibliography of works both on and by > Negri at the Amnesty for Toni Negri site - > http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~forks/TNbiblio.htm > > This work is listed in the bibliography - > > Walther, Manfred. "Negri on Spinoza's Political and Legal Philosophy" in > Edwin Curley & Pierre-Francois Moreau, eds., Spinoza: Issues and > Directions (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990), pp.286-97. > > I haven't read it and so can't vouch for it. > > While I'm much more amenable to Negri than you, I think I have a similar > experience to you/your friend. A lot of stuff I've read on Negri is written > in a mode similar to Negri, employing influences and references I simply am > unfamiliar with or don't understand, which makes understanding what > everyone's on about really really difficult. Makes me feel like a kid in a > room full of adults. Maybe Empire's bookselling success will lead to a Negri > For Beginners book coming out, providing a more accessible place to start > for those of us in the laiety. > > I've read a little bit of Spinoza and started Savage Anomaly but left off, > finding the language really daunting. Spinoza's a really important and > interesting figure but for me he's almost entirely opaque. A truly god awful > choice for authors to read on the bus. The same goes for Negri, so Negri > writing on Spinoza was just too much for me. > > I have the same response to Deleuze - fascinating, important, suggestive, > provocative, now if I only knew what he was saying ... > I'm told his book Spinoza, Practical Philosophy (I think that's the title - > it's his Spinoza book other than Expression in Philosophy) is quite clear > and readable (and I'm told this by a friend with a similar intellectual > training and sense of what constitutes clarity and readability). > I don't know enough about Negr-oloy to know if that Deleuze work is at all > influential on Negri or would be useful to your friend. > Your friend might look at Hardt's dissertation. It's online somewhere. I can > dig up the URL if you like. > > Please pass on anything you find and please ask your friend to do the same. > > all the best, > Nate > > > >From: cwright <cwright-AT-21stcentury.net> > >Reply-To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu > >To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu > >Subject: Re: AUT: Explications of The Savage Anomaly > >Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 14:47:46 -0500 > > > >Wow, its a banner day for me. > > > >Again, that aside, my friend has read the work already and was looking for > >thoughtful, explanatory pro-Negri work on it, which he has so far been > >unable to find (or at least which satisfies him.) And just so your > >academic bile does not froth over, he is already well-versed in Spinoza as > >well so you don't need to tell him, when he disagrees with you, to go read > >Spinoza. Thanks. > > > >Cheers, > >Chris > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: Ari > > To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu > > Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 2:37 PM > > Subject: Re: AUT: Explications of The Savage Anomaly > > > > > > reading the book is a good starting point, that is, assuming that your > >friend doesn't share your petty narcisistic and irritating prejudice > >against the N man. ex-planations or ex-plications would surely go amiss if > >that was the case, since it would make it impossible to either 'unfold' or > >work on the 'plane' of N's or Spinoza's work. > > > > > > > > At 19:30 14/10/2002, you wrote: > > > > Does anyone know of useful explications of Negri's arguments in The > >Savage Anomaly? That is, not just rehashes, but actual work which tries to > >analyze what he means. Rehashes are easy enough to find, but explanations > >and analyses are less so. This is for a friend working through Negri's > >work on Spinoza. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Chris > > --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > http://www.hotmail.com > > > > --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > --- from list aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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