From: "cwright" <cwright-AT-21stcentury.net>
Subject: Re: AUT: Explications of The Savage Anomaly
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 10:39:45 -0500


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Thanks Lowe, I will forward the suggestion on.  I do believe that part of the problem is a lack of familiarity with the D+G type of language and style, which Negri has obviously partially adopted, and that is why my friend was looking for something in somewhat 'plainer' English.  He is in his 60's and is not really ready at this point to spend a few years learning the whole style which he finds quite unpleasant compared to Spinoza (which I find funny), which may limit him and which he is aware of that.  It is mostly because I have poked and prodded him to take this up because of his much greater familiarity with Spinoza that he is doing it at all.  So in the end, it is my fault.

Cheers,
Chris
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  Chris,
  I do not know of any secondary critiques of the book, but I find that Negri himself is usually pretty good at explaining his interpretation. I cannot think of an interview or book that he's written that has not mentioned Spinoza. His reding evidently changed his entire perspective of the political. I have read the book and find it very nice as a work of Spinozan scholarship and historiography as well as a novel reading of Spinoza's work as a whole. It is not for those who enjoy light leisurly reading however, and can be quite dry (as dry as Deleuze's early dissertation if not more so) if you do not have a deep interest in the annals and development of this brand of philosophy. However, if you do read it and give it the time to understand it, it is extremely rewarding.

  The ne article he wrote, i believe it is 'Spinoza's Antimodernity' (which you can perhaps find on the web) is also very good at summarizing his interpretation. 

  Lowe

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  >Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:30:05 -0500
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  >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


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From: Lowe Laclau

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Subject: Re: AUT: Explications of The Savage Anomaly

Chris,

I do not know of any secondary critiques of the book, but I find that Negri himself is usually pretty good at explaining his interpretation. I cannot think of an interview or book that he's written that has not mentioned Spinoza. His reding evidently changed his entire perspective of the political. I have read the book and find it very nice as a work of Spinozan scholarship and historiography as well as a novel reading of Spinoza's work as a whole. It is not for those who enjoy light leisurly reading however, and can be quite dry (as dry as Deleuze's early dissertation if not more so) if you do not have a deep interest in the annals and development of this brand of philosophy. However, if you do read it and give it the time to understand it, it is extremely rewarding.

The ne article he wrote, i believe it is 'Spinoza's Antimodernity' (which you can perhaps find on the web) is also very good at summarizing his interpretation.  

Lowe

>From: cwright

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>Subject: AUT: Explications of The Savage Anomaly

>Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:30:05 -0500

>

>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

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