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Title: Kairos, alma Vénus, multitude by Antonio Negri ISBN: 2-7021-3191-3 Publisher: Calmann-Lévy Pub. Date: 17 April, 2001 Format: Paperback

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Summary: Clearly One of Negri's Best Philosophical Works
Comment: A work of sheer philosophy in the tradition of Spinoza. Each section is composed of three chapters, each dealing with in turn the topics of Kairos, Alma Venus, and the Multitude. If you think you have understood Negri's materialism, you have not really done so until you absorb all of these chapters. All of the conceptual holes that readers of Empire fell into can be filled in here, or at least you understand much more clearly where they are coming from, why certain claims (called audacious, untenable or ridiculous) could be made, and why they critiqued this or that point of reference.

All of the important writers of whom Negri has been a student and teleological heir: Epicurus, Machiavelli, Spinoza, Marx, Leopardi, Dino Campina, and Deleuze, (even Foucault and Nietzsche are to an extent) are integrated into a very finely spun and very thorough act of concept-creation (in the Deleuzian sense). The worlds of Kairos, Alma Venus, and the Multitude are opened up to you in a very rich but challenging fashion. And although he pays homage to all of these writers from whom he's learned, he pushes each of them further than they could have gone themselves.

While certain elements of the exposition will be repetitive to those who know Negri and his influences thoughts, this is perhaps necessary as he attempts in these syntheses to take them to a new "whole" not in any way contained in the "parts". One could even go further and say that large portions of these concepts were present in the thought of people like Deleuze, Bergson, or Marx. But I would argue that there is an originality here for all three that cannot be reduced to those authors. And what is more, one can genuinely see Negri thinking at his most precise and perhaps at his best in presenting (naming) the unnamed telos of communism --which is another way, as the reader will see of saying communism, the "common's" immanence.