# Spinoza for Our Time

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- Book: [Spinoza for Our Time](https://www.bookquiver.com/antonio-negri/spinoza-for-our-time) ([Spinoza for Our Time.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/antonio-negri/spinoza-for-our-time.md))
- Authors: [Antonio Negri](https://www.bookquiver.com/antonio-negri)
- Publisher: columbia_university_press
- ISBN: 978-02-3122-419-2
- Pages: 152
- Published: 2026-01-13
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.