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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782849403321

Autore

Casarino Cesare

Titolo

In praise of the common [[electronic resource] ] : a conversation on philosophy and politics / / Cesare Casarino and Antonio Negri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8166-6628-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

NegriAntonio <1933->

Disciplina

320.01

Soggetti

Political science - Philosophy

Political culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-293) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Surplus Common : A Preface / Cesare Casarino -- A Class-Struggle Propaedeutics, 1950s-1970s --  Sounding the Present : On Empire ; On Multitude ; Vicissitudes of Constituent Thought -- Notes on a Politics of the Future Anterior : The Political Monster : Power and Naked Life / Antonio Negri ; Time Matters : Marx, Negri, Agamben, and the Corporeal / Cesare Casarino.

Sommario/riassunto

A leading Marxist political philosopher and intellectual firebrand, Antonio Negri has inspired anti-empire movements around the world through his writings and personal example. Born in 1933, he was imprisoned in Italy in 1979 and convicted, nearly five years later, on questionable charges of "association and insurrection against the state," whereupon he left the country to teach in France. In 1997, he voluntarily returned to Italy to serve out his seventeen-year prison sentence. He was freed in 2003. In Praise of the Common, which began as a conversation between Negri and literary critic Cesar