Multitudes

Antonio Negri (1933- ) is a moral and political philosopher from Italy. Negri is perhaps most well-known for his co-authorship of Empire and his work on Spinoza. Born in Padua, he became a political philosophy professor in his hometown university. Negri founded Potere Operaio (Worker Power) group in 1969 and was a leading member of the Autonomia Marxist group. Accused in the early 1980s of being the mastermind behind the May 1978 assassination of Aldo Moro, leader of Christian-Democrat Party, Negri was later cleared of a ...

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Multitude is a term of Spinoza's taken up by political theorists Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri in the international best-seller Empire (2000) and expanded upon in their recent Multitude (2004). Adopted in polemic opposition to the term "the people," (as well as to related figures of political subjectivity such as "class") which is associated by Hardt & Negri (and by other Italian and French political thinkers associated with Autonomist Marxism and its sequelae, including Sylvère Lotringer, Paolo Virno, and ...

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On April 7, 1979, at the age of forty-six, Antonio Negri was arrested along with the others leaders of Autonomia (O. Scalzone, E. Vesce, A. Del Re, L. Ferrari Bravo, F. Piperno...). Attorney Pietro Calogero (close to the PCI) accused the Autonomia group of being the mastermind behind left-wing "terrorism" in Italy. Negri was charged with a number of offenses including leadership of the Red Brigades, masterminding the 1978 kidnapping and murder of Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro and plotting to overthrow the government. At the time, Negri wa ...

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Antonio (Toni) Negri was born in Padua, Italy in 1933. He had a stellar academic career at the University of Padua and was promoted to full professor at a young age in the field of "dottrina dello Stato" (State theory), a particularly Italian field that deals with juridical and constitutional theory. He began his career as a militant in the 1950s with the activist Catholic youth organization Gioventú Italiana di Azione Cattolica (GIAC). He joined the International Socialist Party in 1956 and remained a member until 1963, while at the same time becoming more and more engaged throughout the lat ...

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Antonio Negri, Antonio Negri - Early years, Antonio Negri - Arrest and Exile, Antonio Negri - Political thought and writings, Antonio Negri - Endnotes, Antonio Negri - Books in English by Antonio Negri, Antonio Negri - Articles by Antonio Negri, Antonio Negri - Other Links about Antonio Negri

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Among the central themes in Negri's work are Marxism, democratic globalization, Anti-capitalism, Postmodernism, Neoliberalism, Democracy, the Commons, and the Multitudes. His prolific, iconoclastic, cosmopolitan, highly original and often dense and difficult philosophical writings attempt to reconcile critical terms with most of the major global intellectual movements of the past half-century in the service of a new Marxist analysis of capitalism. Although he acknowledges the influence of Michel Foucault, David Harvey's The Conditi ...

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Antonio Negri, Antonio Negri - Early years, Antonio Negri - Arrest and Exile, Antonio Negri - Political thought and writings, Antonio Negri - Endnotes, Antonio Negri - Books in English by Antonio Negri, Antonio Negri - Articles by Antonio Negri, Antonio Negri - Other Links about Antonio Negri

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