Potentia of Poverty.

• Superior document: Historical Materialism Book Series ; v.283
• Author: Pascucci, Margherita.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Historical Materialism Book Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (184 pages)

"Potentia of Poverty opposes to the surplus-value of capital a surplus-concept of life - of the worker, of the non-worker, of the poor, of the rich: an excess of being with the power to undo capital by using its own mechanism. Antonio Negri writes in the preface that 'The poor is the powerful, Pascucci tells us. She interprets Marx as a reader of Spinoza; however, maybe there is something more here than there is in Spinoza and Marx themselves. A further passage is necessary to grasp this "more": namely, to tie the experience of poverty to an ontology of "cupiditas" [desire], that is, of "amor" [love]'"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Preface to the Italian Edition -- ‎Author's Preface to the English Edition -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Chapter 1. Self-Cause and Cause through an Other [causa sui-causa ab alio] -- ‎1.1. Value and Common Notions -- ‎1.2. The Definition of Value and of the Character of Form-Equivalent -- ‎1.3. Common Notions as 'koinai ennoiai' -- ‎1.4. How are Common Notions Linked to Affects? -- ‎Chapter 2. Marx's Notebook on Spinoza: Imagination and Revolutionary Praxis -- ‎2.1. Theological-Political Treatise -- ‎2.2. Imagination -- ‎2.3. Berlin 1841: Letters: umwälzende Praxis [Revolutionary Praxis] -- ‎Chapter 3. The potentia of Poverty: For an Economy of Joy -- ‎3.1. Atom of Virtuality and the Anticipatory Abstraction -- ‎3.2. The Establishment of a-Conceptual Relations -- ‎3.3. The Virtuality of History -- ‎3.4. Excursus on the potentia (Ontological) and How This Defines Poverty -- ‎3.4.1. The dunamis as Mode of Being Related - the Essence of the Idea -- ‎3.4.2. Definition -- ‎3.4.3. Ontological-Gnoseological Parallelism -- ‎3.5. How the dunamis-Virtue is the Spinozan potentia -- ‎3.5.1. The Four Songs of Poverty: The Ancient Concept -- Politics of Poverty -- potentia of Poverty, Ultimate Poverty -- ‎3.5.2. Ancient Poverty -- ‎3.5.3. Political Poverty -- ‎3.5.4. Potentia of Poverty -- ‎3.5.5. The Singular Virtuality of the Free Worker -- ‎3.5.6. Production of Sense, Liberation of Joy -- ‎3.5.7. Ultimate Poverty -- ‎3.5.8. Poverty and the Struggle with apriori-ness -- ‎3.6. The Virtuality of Our Time -- ‎3.6.1. Virtual Time -- ‎3.7. Potentia and Dismeasure -- ‎Chapter 4. The Production of Subjectivity: Labour, Poverty and the Free Man: Or, the 'potentia' of Labour -- ‎4.1. The Virtuality of Subjectivity -- ‎4.2. On Labour and Poverty -- ‎4.3. Potentia and the Intensive -- ‎4.4. The Plus of Being -- ‎Selected Bibliography -- ‎Index of Names.

‎General Index.