In Praise of the Common

by Casarino, Cesare

• ISBN13: 9780816647439
• ISBN10: 0816647437
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-27
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

A publishing event the history and evolution of Antonio Negris philosophical and political thought. A leading Marxist political philosopher and intellectual firebrand, Antonio Negri has inspired anti-empire movements around the world through his writings and personal example. In Praise of the Common, which began as a conversation between Negri and literary critic Cesare Casarino, is the most complete review of the philosophers work everpublished. It includes five exchanges in which the two intellectuals discuss Negris evolution as a thinker from 1950 to the present, detailing for the first time the genealogy of his concepts. In Praise of the Common contains two essays by Casarino that expand Negris most recent work by relating it to the work of other prominent thinkers.

Author Biography

Cesare Casarino is associate professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota and is the author of Modernity at Sea (Minnesota, 2002) Antonio Negri, who has taught at the University of Padua and the University of Paris, is the author of more than thirty books including Empire and Multitude, with Michael Hardt, and Insurgencies and The Savage Anomaly, both published by the University of Minnesota Press

Table of Contents

Surplus Common: A Preface	p. 1
A Class-Struggle Propaedeutics, 1950s-1970s	p. 41
Sounding the Present
On Empire	p. 65
On Multitude	p. 99
Vicissitudes of Constituent Thought	p. 134
Notes on a Politics of the Future Anterior
The Political Monster: Power and Naked Life	p. 193
Time Matters: Marx, Negri, Agamben, and the Corporeal	p. 219
Notes	p. 247
Index	p. 295
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