
Subversive Negri
From the Refusal of Work to the Multitude
Roberto Nigro(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 10. July 2026
Book
Hardback
168 pages
978-1-041-08267-5 (ISBN)
Description
The first English-language introduction to the entire work of world-renowned theorist and activist Antonio Negri, this book reconstructs his philosophy and critically discusses the existence of the revolutionary power of the multitude.
Although the existence of the power of the multitude becomes the dominant topic of Negri's later writings, beginning with the radical vision of imperial power found in Empire, Roberto Nigro demonstrates how the core concepts of Negri's work were elaborated in the decades preceding Empire and in the historical-political conjuncture dominated by the political and social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Nigro shows that Negri's insistence on the ontological dimension counters the poverty of the present. "Poverty of the present" is understood as the impossibility of finding practical answers to the question of revolutionary subjectivity. If social movements fail to give themselves a lasting political organization, if subjects languish under the yoke of capitalist domination, how can one orient oneself in such circumstances?
Authoritative, informative, and engaging, Subversive Negri will be essential reading for both the academy and politically engaged audience of non-specialist readers.
Although the existence of the power of the multitude becomes the dominant topic of Negri's later writings, beginning with the radical vision of imperial power found in Empire, Roberto Nigro demonstrates how the core concepts of Negri's work were elaborated in the decades preceding Empire and in the historical-political conjuncture dominated by the political and social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Nigro shows that Negri's insistence on the ontological dimension counters the poverty of the present. "Poverty of the present" is understood as the impossibility of finding practical answers to the question of revolutionary subjectivity. If social movements fail to give themselves a lasting political organization, if subjects languish under the yoke of capitalist domination, how can one orient oneself in such circumstances?
Authoritative, informative, and engaging, Subversive Negri will be essential reading for both the academy and politically engaged audience of non-specialist readers.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-041-08267-5 (9781041082675)
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Person
Roberto Nigro is Full Professor of Philosophy at Leuphana University of Lueneburg in Germany. He is an ancien directeur de programme at the College International de Philosophie in Paris. He has taught in different universities in Switzerland, France, the United States of America, and Italy. His research interests focus on the Marxist tradition of Operaismo, on the work of Michel Foucault, and the Nietzschean legacy in contemporary philosophy.
Content
Introduction. 1. The Revolution Began in 1968 2. Issues in Contemporary Marxism 3. Winter Years on the Horizon 4. Beyond the Winter Years 5. The Horizon of a New Revolutionary Cycle