Time for Revolution

Description

The two key essays by Antonio Negri brought together here for the first time were written in prison two decades apart. Time for Revolution illuminates the course of Negri's thinking from the 1980s to Empire and beyond. Time for Revolution reflects Negri's abiding interest in the philosophy of time and resistance. The first essay is a central work in Negri's oeuvre, tracing the fracture lines which force capitalist society into perpetual crisis. The second essay, written immediately after the global best-seller, Empire, provides a conceptual toolbox, deepening our understanding of the two key concepts of empire and multitude. Time for Revolution explores the burning issue of our times: is there still a place for resistance in a society utterly subsumed by capitalism?

Antonio Negri is one of the most significant figures in contemporary political thought. He is the author of several works including The Savage Anomaly, Labor of Dionysus (co-authored with Michael Hardt), Insurgencies, and most recently, Empire, written with Michael Hardt. Matteo Mandarini is Lecturer in Politics and Organization at Queen Mary University of London, UK. His research centres on Italian operaismo and the Marxist tradition. He is translator of numerous works of Italian philosophy, including: Writers and the People (Alberto Asor Rosa, 2020), The Passage West (Giacomo Marramao, 2012), The Kingdom and the Glory (Giorgio Agamben, 2011) and The Labour of Job (Antonio Negri, 2009).

"Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, researchers." -Choice , April 2004 * Blurb from reviewer * "Time for Revolution constitutes a major philosophical statement by one of the most important thinkers of our time."--Fredric Jameson * Blurb from reviewer * "We discover here another Negri, a Negri deeply immersed in a philosophical, even a theological problematic. This book is a MUST: it provides the proper background for Negri's widely circulated analysis of the global capitalist Empire."--Slavoj Zizek * Blurb from reviewer *