Antonio Negri

Antonio Negri ( born August 1, 1933, Padua ), also known in short as Toni Negri, is an Italian political scientist and a major representative of the neo-Marxist flow of Operaism.

Life and work

Negri was a member of the activist Catholic youth Gioventù Italiana di Azione Cattolica ( GIAC ) at a young age. In 1956, he joined the Socialist party PSI. In the early 1960s he became involved in the editorial office of the Quaderni Rossi, Negri and other workerists then dominated the local newspaper of the PSI ( Progresso Veneto). Negri was a town councilor of PSI in Padua. In protest against the coalition with the Christian Democrats (DC) in 1964, he left the Socialist Party. 1963 The break came in the Quaderni Rossi editorial, Raniero Panzieri and remained his followers, Romano Alquati, Alberto Asor Rosa, Rita Di Leo, Pier Luigi Gasparotto, Claudio Greppi, Toni Negri, Massimo Paci and Mario Tronti left the QR and founded the journal Classe operaia ( January 1964 ).

Antonio Negri had an extraordinary academic career and was very young professor of political theory at the elite University of Padua.

After a break with M. Tronti 1966 A. Negri in 1969 was co-founder and general secretary of the group Potere Operaio. The early 70s, he announced the end of the law of value and advocated armed insurrection. Potere Operaio broke up in 1973, many members and sympathizers took it to Prima Linea, an armed group, others joined Autonomia, Negri to. On the burgeoning 77er movement, which broke open with all traditional notions of working-class movement, including those of the 68s, Negri responded with the term " social worker". The factory was no longer the central place of production and struggle, but the whole society. The confrontations with the symbols of the state became more violent, you went to armed demonstrations and there were exchanges of fire with the police. Rotbrigadisten murdered Aldo Moro in 1978, the following state repression captured the '77 movement and the armed revolutionaries, heedless of differences.

On April 7, 1979 A. Negri and arrested many other business related to the Autonomia Organised in conjunction intellectuals and university lecturers and accused of being a terrorist and because of the coup attempt against the state. The Organised Autonomy was accused of being the head of the Red Brigades. Although the defendants attempted to refute this notion of the judge, Negri was sentenced to 30 years in prison in 1984 and 1986 further four and a half because he had the clashes in the 60s and 70s moral support. While his formal indictment was prepared, Negri was elected in 1983 for the Radical Party in Parliament. Before his parliamentary immunity was lifted, Negri fled to France, where he lived for 14 years and write and could teach.

It dealt intensively with poststructuralist thinkers such as Michel Foucault and especially Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari apart and wrote a book on Spinoza. In 1997 he returned to Rome and was arrested, but the last years of his imprisonment, he only had to spend the night in jail. He was released in 2003. Negri later wrote for the journal Futur Antérieur, for Paolo Virno worked.

Toni Negri's written with Michael Hardt comprehensive treatise Empire - the new world order, followed by programmatic multitude and the third part of the Commonwealth ( Sept. 2009, German Commonwealth, 2010), made ​​the author to Star intellectuals, the strong especially in the anti-globalization left find resonance.

At the suggestion of the Paris director Barbara Nicolier Negri wrote in 2005 Essaim, a stage version of Empire. Had the German premiere swarm in January 2009 at the Theatre under the direction of Christian Schlüter with Silvia Weiskopf in the lead role.

Writings

  • Partito operaio contro il lavoro, 1974 to German: Mass autonomy from the historic compromise, Trikont Verlag, Munich 1977, ISBN 3920385845
  • To German: The Savage Anomaly: Baruch Spinoza design of a free society, Wagenbach, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-8031-3507-9
  • French edition: Le pouvoir constituant: essai sur les de la alternative modernity, translated from Italian by Étienne Balibar and François Matheron, Presses universitaires de France, Paris 1997, ISBN 2130481213
  • English edition: Insurgencies: constituent power and the modern state, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minn. 1999, ISBN 0-8166-2274-4
  • German Empire: The New World Order, Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3- 593-36994 -X
  • German: Multitude: War and Democracy in the Empire, translated by Thomas Atzert, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-593-37410-2
  • German: Commonwealth: the end of the property, translated by Thomas Atzert, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-593-39169-4
  • German: democracy! What are we fighting, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York, 2013, ISBN 978-3-593-39825-9.
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