Bøker av Antonio (University of Padua) Negri

"In this book, renowned theorist Antonio Negri examines how Spinoza's thought constitutes a radical break with past ideas and a key tool for envisaging a form of politics beyond capitalism. His philosophy gives us new ways of looking critically at our present, revealing that power must always be seen as a question of antagonism and class struggle"--

This second volume of a new three-part series of Antonio Negri s work is focussed on the consequences of the rapid process of deindustrialisation that has occurred across the West in recent years.

This the first of a new three-part series in which Antonio Negri, a leading political thinker of our time, explores key ideas that have animated radical thought and examines some of the social and economic forces that are shaping our world today.

* Antonio Negri is an internationally famous political thinker, extremely well-known for his hugely influential work Empire * This new book takes the form of a series of letters, written from a prison cell in Italy between October 1981 and April 1982, to a young friend in France.

n Many people across the world know Antonio Negri as an internationally renowned political thinker whose book, Empire, co-authored with Michael Hardt, is an international bestseller. Much less well known is the fact that, up until 1979, Negri was a university professor teaching in Paris and Padova.

Antonio Negri is an internationally famous political thinker. The book consists of nine letters on art written by Negri, about his conception of art in the postmodern world.

An important new book by the author of the international bestseller Empire. Negri clarifies and elaborates the key themes and ideas that underpin his work in Empire and Multitude , including new political movements, the forms of order and resistance within Empire and the possibility of politics in our postmodern world.

Guide will appeal to anyone interested in current debates about the ways in which the world is changing today; to the many people who are followers of Negris work; and to students and scholars in sociology, politics and cultural studies.

* This is a new paperback edition of an important work by Negri, with a new Preface by the author. * Negri is one of the most influential social and political thinkers writing today. His books Empire and Multitude are bestsellers.