Political Descartes. Reason, Ideology and the Bourgeois Project

Translated and introduced by Matteo Mandarini and Alberto Toscano

The renowned co-author of Empire with his classic study of the founder of modern philosophy-available in English for the first time.

"One of the most significant figures of current
political thought." - New Statesman

Antonio Negri has taught philosophy and political science at the Universities of Padua and Paris; he has also been a political prisoner in Italy and a political refugee in France. He is the author of over thirty books, including Marx Beyond Marx, The Savage Anomaly, The Politics of Subversion, Insurgencies, Subversive Spinoza, and Time for Revolution, and, in collaboration with Michael Hardt, Labor of Dionysus, Empire and Multitude. He currently lives in Paris and Venice. His Books for Burning: Between Civil War and Democracy in 1970s Italy is also available from Verso.