Commentary

• Savage Anomaly: The Power of Spinoza’s Metaphysics and Politics

  - Negri, Antonio. Savage Anomaly: The Power of Spinoza’s Metaphysics and Politics. Minneapolis: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1999.
  From the Publisher: “In this essential rereading of Spinoza’s (1632-1677) philosophical and political writings, Negri positions this thinker within the historical context of the development of the modern state and its attendant political economy.… More

• “Strauss and Schmitt as Readers of Hobbes and Spinoza: On the Relation Between Political Theology and Liberalism”

  - Vatter, Miguel E. “Strauss and Schmitt as Readers of Hobbes and Spinoza: On the Relation Between Political Theology and Liberalism.” CR: The New Centennial Review 4, no. 3 (2004): 161–214. doi:10.1353/ncr.2005.0025.
  Excerpt: “Among those thinkers who experienced the emergence of totalitarian regimes and lived to offer a theoretical analysis of them, it is not infrequent to notice the absence of what in our times is presented as unquestionable evidence: the… More

• Spinoza and Politics

  - Balibar, Etienne. Spinoza and Politics. Translated by Peter Snowden. Brooklyn: Verso, 1998.
  From the Publisher: “With Hobbes and Locke, Spinoza is arguably one of the most important political philosophers of the modern era, a premier theoretician of democracy and mass politics. In this revised and augmented English translation of his 1985… More