Abstract
Antonio Negri, former professor of public law at the University of Padua wrote a book on Spinoza in 1979 entitled: The Wild Anomaly: Baruch Spinoza's Outline of a Free Society . What Spinoza shows, according to Negri, is that the history of metaphysics includes radical alternatives. Spinoza's political theory is a theory of collective emancipation. For Spinoza political philosophy is not designed as a voluntaristic and normativistic theory of legitimation, but as the strict application of the conditions that are exposed in his general ontology and, especially, in his doctrine of the conatus in Ethics III. The author uses the term validity positivism to compare Hobbes' political philosophy with that of Spinoza once more-now in the field of legal theory. So, notwithstanding Negri's continuous affirmation that Spinoza is a-or the-materialist thinker of early modern times, in the end his Spinoza looks very much like an idealist thinker in this respect. Keywords: validity positivism; Antonio Negri; conatus ; legal theory; metaphysics; political philosophy; Spinoza
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