Abstract

In his preface to the Italian edition of Laurent Bove’s book on Spinoza,Tôni Negri explains how this book should be seen as part of - and a completion of the thorough reconfiguration of Spinoza studies underway since 1968. In response to the crisis of Structuralism: and Marxism, the Spinoza-interpretations of Deleuze, Matheron, Baliba Macherey and Moreau present a position of philosophical renewal articulated around six points: a positive ontology of immanence; a constitutive logic of imagination; an affirmative ethics of power. These three points are then supplemented as follows: this ontology is a theory of the constitution of bodies and an active phenomenology of the incarnation of thought, an ontological practice and a politics of cooperation of bodies and singularities; lastly, , a politics of the multitude can only emerge on these foundations. Negri then shows that Bove’s book, by following the guiding thread of the strategy of the conatus, rounds out this hermeneutical tradition by presenting Spinozism as a machine of essences and eternity, in which the activity of resistance plays a decisive role