Antonio Negri

"In 2004 and 2005, Antonio Negri held ten workshops at the College International de Philosophie in Paris to formulate a new political grammar of the postmodern. Postmodernity, Negri suggests, can be described as a "porcelain workshop": a delicate and fragile construction that could be destroyed through one clumsy act. Looking across twentieth-century history, Negri warns that our inability to anticipate future developments has already placed coming generations in serious jeopardy. In the impassioned debates recounted in this book, Antonio Negri attempts to describe the formation of an alternative political horizon and looks for a way to define the practices and modes of expression that democracy could take."--book jacket.

"Goodbye Mr. Socialism offers a gripping encounter with one of today's leading leftists, presenting his most up-to-date analysis of global events and insight into the prospects for the Left in an age of neoliberalism. In his most accessible work yet, philosopher Antonio Negri discusses the state of the global Left since the end of the Cold War and suggests a new politics in a series of rousing conversations with Raf Valvola Scelsi. Scelsi prompts Negri to critique the episodes in the post-Cold War period that have afforded the Left opportunities to rethink its strategies and objectives. Addressing the twilight of social democracy, Negri offers a compelling defense of the prospects for social transformation."--Jacket.

Antonio Negri, a leading scholar on Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) and his contemporary legacy, offers a straightforward explanation of the philosopher's elaborate arguments and a persuasive case for his ongoing utility. Responding to a resurgent interest in Spinoza's thought and its potential application to contemporary global issues, Negri demonstrates the thinker's special value to politics, philosophy, and a number of related disciplines.

Decir financiarización es, a la luz de los acontecimientos actuales, el dato más obvio de nuestra condición económica. La orientación financiera del capitalismo ha conducido, con violencia extrema, los niveles de explotación a un nuevo umbral cualitativo. El medio ambiente, la vivienda, las pensiones, la educación, y progresivamente todo lo que existía de común entre los sujetos productivos, se ha vuelto bien de inversión y motivo de endeudamiento. Y sin embargo, la violencia del capitalismo financiero ha estallado en la mayor crisis desde 1929. Las contribuciones reunidas en este volumen pretenden abordar las crisis precisamente en lo que ésta abre. Producto de la elaboración colectiva en el laboratorio político intelectual Uninomade, su interés se cifra no sólo en su alto perfil analítico, sino en su decidida apuesta política. Lejos de la lucha de interpretaciones que compiten por rescatar una economía tocada en el corazón de las conexiones, este libro se esfuerza en conquistar la siguiente pregunta ¿cómo reapropiar para la reconstrucción de lo común lo que el capital ha convertido en renta financiera? Los autores de este libro se reconocen en la larga estela del operarismo italiano. Común a todos ellos es el presupuesto de que es en la capacidad de innovación y de cooperación del trabajo vivo donde se aloja el nudo gordiano de las formas históricas del capitalismo. La radicalidad de sus contribuciones se confirma en la presunción de la insuficiencia de una investigación que tome como centro el curso objetivo del capitalismo y no las potencias simétricas y contrarias al capital que paradójicamente determinan sus condiciones concretas.

Four men in a cell in Rebibbia prison, Rome, awaiting trial on serious charges of subversion. One of them, the political thinker Antonio Negri, spends his days writing. Among his writings are twenty letters addressed to a young friend in France letters in which Negri reflects on his own personal development as a philosopher, theorist and political activist and analyses the events, activities and movements in which he has been involved. The letters recount an existential journey that links a rigorous philosophical education with a powerful political passion, set against the historical backdrop of postwar Italy. Crucially, Negri recalls the pivotal moment in 1978 when the former prime minister of Italy, Aldo Moro, was kidnapped and killed by the Red Brigades, and how the institutions then pinned that killing onto him and his associates.

"In late 1995, in opposition to the conservative agenda of Jacques Chirac and his prime minister Alain Juppé and their proposed widespread welfare cuts, French students rose up against their government; public sector workers, together with all the major trade unions, went on strike. When railway workers and Paris Metro personnel joined in the protests, France's public transportation system came to a halt. These extensive social upheavals, the likes of which had not been seen in France since 1968, found widespread public support and fuelled the creation of many political organizations. Chirac backed down from restructuring the public retirement system. Antonio Negri's The Winter is Over comes out of the glimmer of optimism created by the events of 1995, when the long, cold season of neoliberalism, Thatcherism, Reaganomics, reaction, and counterrevolution appeared to have run its course. Published in Italian in 1996, The Winter is Over brings together a series of articles, speeches, and other documents written by Negri between 1989 and 1995 at the threshold of this thaw. It offers a revealing and wide-reaching account of those years of change and brink-of-change, focusing on such topics as the networks of social production, the decline of "limp thought," the end of applied socialism, the Gulf War, and, finally, Italy's transition to its so-called "Second Republic," as seen by an exile."--Publisher's website.

This title is the last of Antonio Negri's major political works to be translated into English. It is both a systematic inquiry into the development of Lenin's thought and an encapsulation of a critical shift in Negri's theoretical trajectory. It explains that Lenin is the only prominent politician of the modern era to seriously question the 'withering away' and 'extinction' of the state, and that, like Karl Marx, he recognised the link between capitalism and modern sovereignty and the need to destroy capitalism and reconfigure the state.