The Philosophy of Antonio Negri Resistance in Practice

This collection of essays is the first of its kind in English on the work of Antonio Negri, the Italian philosopher and political theorist.

The spectacular success of Empire, Negri's collaboration with Michael Hardt, has brought Negri's writing to a new, wider audience. A substantial body of his writing is now available to an English-speaking readership.

Outstanding contributors - including Michael Hardt, Sergio Bologna, Kathi Weeks and Nick Dyer-Witheford - reveal the variety and complexity of Negri's thought and explore its unique relevance to modern politics.

Negri is one of the most sophisticated analysts of modern political philosophy. Philosophers and critics alike find his work both difficult and exhilarating, engaging as it does with Marx, Spinoza, Deleuze, Guattari, Tronti and others.

This book is ideal for readers who want to get to grips with Negri's key themes, in particular his theories on labour, capital, power, the state and revolution. It makes a great introduction to his work for students of political philosophy, as well as providing a comprehensive critical approach for Negri enthusiasts.
Introduction: The Real Movement and the Present State of Things

Timothy S. Murphy & Abdul-Karim Mustapha

Editors' Acknowledgments

Contributors

Part I. The Long '68 in Italy

1. Into the Factory: Negri's Lenin and the Subjective Caesura (1968-73)

Michael Hardt

2. Negri's Proletarians and the State: A Critique

Sergio Bologna

3. Feminism and Autonomy: Itinerary of Struggle

Alisa del Re



4. A Party of Autonomy?

Steve Wright

Part II. How to Resist the Present

5. The Refusal of Work as Demand and Perspective

Kathi Weeks

6. Cyber-Negri: General Intellect and Immaterial Labor

Nick Dyer-Witheford

7. Negri by Zapata: Constituent Power and the Limits of Autonomy

José Rabasa

8. 'Now Everything Must Be Reinvented': Negri and Revolution

Kenneth Surin

Bibliography

Index