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Antonio Negri (b.1933 in Padua, Italy) is an Italian political philosopher and sociologist.<\/p>\nAntonio Negri (b.1933 in Padua, Italy) is an Italian political philosopher and sociologist.<\/p>\n
In the early 1960s, Negri was appointed professor of\u00a0dottrina dello Stato<\/em>\/state theory at the University of Padua. In 1969, he co-founded the association\u00a0Potere Operaio<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cWorker\u2019s Power\u201d) and, after its dissolution in 1973, joined\u00a0Autonomia Operaia<\/em>\u00a0(\u201cWorkers\u2019 Autonomy\u201d), a de-centralized network operating throughout Italy.<\/p>\n In 1978, former prime minister and president of the Christian Democratic Party, Aldo Moro, was kidnapped and eventually murdered. A few months later, Negri was arrested and convicted of \u201ccrimes of association and insurrection against the state\u201d (with this charge later being dropped) and sentenced for being involved in two murders.<\/p>\n Negri was detained for 4 years before eventually being tried. In 1983, he was elected into parliament for the Marxist Radical Party, and parliamentary immunity led to his temporal release. Negri fled to France, where he taught at Vincennes\/Paris VIII as well as at the\u00a0Coll\u00e8ge International de Philosophie<\/em>, and where he co-founded the journal\u00a0Futur Anterieur<\/em>.<\/p>\n In 1997, he returned to Italy and sat out his prison sentence.<\/p>\n Negri shot to international fame with the book\u00a0Empire<\/em>\u00a0(Harvard University Press, 2000), co-authored with Michael Hardt, in which they attempt to demonstrate that the concept of \u201cEmpire\u201d is the new regime of globalization: \u201cOur basic hypothesis is that sovereignty has taken a new form, composed of a series of national and supranational organisms united under a single logic of rule. This new global form of sovereignty is what we call Empire.\u201d As Slavoj \u017di\u017eek enthusiastically put it: \u201cWhat Hardt and Negri offer is nothing less than a rewriting of\u00a0The Communist Manifesto<\/em>for our time:\u00a0Empire<\/em>\u00a0conclusively demonstrates how global capitalism generates antagonisms that will finally explode its form. This book rings the death-bell not only for the complacent liberal advocates of the \u2018end of history,\u2019 but also for pseudo-radical Cultural Studies which avoid the full confrontation with today\u2019s capitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n Empire\u00a0<\/em>was followed by\u00a0Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire<\/em>(Penguin, 2004): \u201cThe possibility of democracy on a global scale is emerging today for the very first time. This book is about that possibility, about what we call the project of the multitude. The project of the multitude not only expressed the desire for a world of equality and freedom, not only demands an open and inclusive democratic global society, but also provides the means for achieving it.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2009,\u00a0Commonwealth<\/em>\u00a0(Belknap Press) finalized the trilogy: \u201cA democracy of the multitude is imaginable and possible only because we all share and participate in the common. By the \u2018common\u2019 we mean, first of all, the common wealth of the material world\u2014the air, the water, the fruits of the soil, and all nature\u2019s bounty[\u2026]We consider the common also and more significantly those results of social production that are necessary for social interaction and further production, such as knowledges, languages, codes, information, affects, and so forth. This notion of the common does not position humanity separate from nature[\u2026]but focuses rather on the practices of interaction, care, and cohabitation in a common world, promoting the beneficial and limiting the detrimental forms of the common.\u201d<\/p>\n Negri has authored numerous articles and books, including\u00a0The Porcelain Workshop: For a New Grammar of Politics<\/em>\u00a0(Semiotext(e) 2008);\u00a0Time for Revolution\u00a0<\/em>(Continuum, 2003),\u00a0Negri on Negri: In Conversation with Anne Dufourmantelle<\/em><\/a>(Routledge, 2004),\u00a0Subversive\u00a0<\/em>Spinoza<\/em><\/a>: (Un)Contemporary Variations<\/em>\u00a0(edited by Timothy S. Murphy, Manchester University Press, 2004),\u00a0Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State<\/em>\u00a0(University of Minnesota Press, 1999),\u00a0The Politics of Subversion: A Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century (<\/em>Polity Press, 1989).<\/p>\n After self-publishing\u00a0Declaration\u00a0<\/em>in 2012, a pamphlet on the Occupy movements, Negri and Hardt also came out with\u00a0Assembly<\/em>\u00a0(Oxford University Press, 2017): \u201cThe title of this book,\u00a0Assembly<\/em>, is meant to grasp the power of coming together and acting politically in concert. But we do not offer a theory of assembly or a detailed analysis of any specific practice of assembly. Instead we approach the concept transversally and show how it resonates with a broad web of political principles and practices\u201d.<\/p>\n [1]\u00a0http:\/\/www.hup.harvard.edu\/catalog.php?isbn=9780674006713&content=reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Antonio Negri (b.1933 in Padua, Italy) is an Italian political philosopher and sociologist. In the early 1960s, Negri was appointed professor of\u00a0dottrina dello Stato\/state theory at the University of Padua. In 1969, he co-founded the association\u00a0Potere Operaio\u00a0(\u201cWorker\u2019s Power\u201d) and, after… Continue Reading