Antonio Negri Reihenfolge der Bücher

Focusing on the author's intellectual journey, this autobiography delves into his experiences as a committed Communist. It explores the challenges and sacrifices he faced while pursuing his ideals, providing a compelling insight into his personal and political evolution. As the first volume of a three-part series, it sets the stage for a deeper understanding of his life and beliefs.

This final volume in Antonio Negri’s new trilogy aims to clarify and develop the ‘common’ as a key concept of radical thought. Here the term is understood in a double sense: on the one hand, as a collective of production and consumption in which the domination of capital has been completely realized; on the other hand, as the cooperation of workers and citizens and their assertion of political power. The maturation of this duality was the sign of the limits of capitalism in our age; the common showed itself as the active force that recomposed production, society and life in a new experience of freedom. Today the promise of freedom seems undermined by the very institutions founded to uphold it, as the charters of western democracy seek to prioritize individualism. Negri advocates instead a free society founded on the premise that the good life is to be collectively ordered – in other words, a society that elevates the common. In his vision, giving political expression to those who work and produce is the only way of overturning totalitarian exploitation and of enabling every citizen to participate in the development of the city. Like its companion volumes, this new collection of essays by Negri will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in radical politics and in the key social and political struggles of our time.

This volume compiles Antonio Negri's critical writings on the modern state's nature and form. A central theme is the necessity of moving beyond the sovereign state, a political power shaped by the capitalist organization of bourgeois society. Negri argues that the sovereign bourgeois state has become a tool for a declining ruling class, which sometimes appears exhausted in its institutional forms and at other times operates in a frenetic, zombie-like, or parafascist manner. He contends that the despotic power of the state should be abolished, distinguishing his perspective from other Left thinkers who mistakenly view the state as inevitable. Instead, he believes the state should be seen as a power structure that, once conquered, must be transformed and ultimately dissolved to combat the oppression of living labor and promote free citizenship. Negri asserts that the call for state abolition remains a vital, active concrete utopia, reflected in every act of liberation. The articles in this volume cover Negri's analysis of the capitalist state's transformation in the twentieth century, driven by Keynesianism, and his insights into the evolution of sovereignty from local command to global control. This collection is a valuable resource for those interested in radical politics and contemporary social and political struggles.

This first volume in a new trilogy of books by Antonio Negri examines and develops the Italian tradition of radical Marxist thought known as operaismo or ‘autonomist Marxism’ – the tradition to which Negri himself adheres and in which he is a leading figure. The tradition of operaismo emphasizes the role of the worker in capitalism and the primacy of class struggle. Within this framework, Negri’s key contribution has been to theorize the transition from the ‘mass worker’ to the ‘social worker’ – that is, to broaden the concept of living labour and liberate it from the theoretical cages that locked it into the factory. It was only by moving beyond the ideology and political practice of the mass worker that the revolutionary character of the Marxist concept of class could be updated for our times and developed in relation to the exploitation and socialization of living labour, including networks of cognitive work, reproductive work and care work, networks which also have the potential to become the bases for new forms of resistance to capitalist exploitation. By bringing together Negri’s key contributions to the reconceptualization of the worker and class struggle, this volume demonstrates the vitality of the Marxist tradition of operaismo and its continued relevance for understanding the key social and political struggles of our time.

Exploring the impact of automation and information technology, the writings delve into the transformation of labor organization and the broadening of exploitation beyond the traditional labor class. Negri examines the implications of neoliberalism, Thatcherism, and Reaganomics, highlighting how these shifts have not only displaced the political significance of labor but have also embedded exploitation across various societal spheres. The work critiques the resulting counterrevolution and its effects on contemporary social dynamics.

In the Old Testament book of Job, the pious Job is made to suffer for no apparent reason. The heart of the story is Job's quest to understand why he must bear, and why God would allow, such misery. This book presents a Marxist interpretation of Job's story.

In der momentanen Krise wächst das gesellschaftliche Unbehagen am Kapitalismus. Viele Menschen fragen jetzt nach einer menschlicheren Alternative des Zusammenlebens. Eine Gesellschaft jenseits von Maximen wie Profit, Konkurrenz und Besitzdenken – ist das möglich? Michael Hardt und Antonio Negri, Autoren des Bestsellers »Empire«, entwickeln in ihrem neuen großen Werk einen provozierend optimistischen Gesellschaftsentwurf. Dieser beruht nicht mehr auf dem neoliberalen Gegensatz von Privatbesitz und öffentlichem Eigentum, sondern auf der Idee des Gemeinsamen (»common«). Ressourcen wie Wasser, Luft und Pflanzen und immaterielle Güter wie Wissen und Information gehören uns allen. Wenn wir sie teilen, wird der Weg frei für eine gerechtere Gesellschaft, an der alle partizipieren können. Im Streit um das politische Profil des 21. Jahrhunderts bieten die Autoren ein zentrales Gegengewicht zu all jenen, die uns weismachen wollen, dass die derzeitige Politik- und Wirtschaftsform die einzig mögliche sei.