Insurgencies

Constituent Power and the Modern State

Antonio Negri, Maurizia Boscagli, Maurizia Boscagli

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University of Minnesota Press
01 January 2010

Constitution: government & the state; Constitutional & administrative law

Series: Theory Out of Bounds

New EditionIn the ten years since the initial publication of Insurgencies, Antonio Negri's reputation as one of the world's foremost political philosophers has grown dramatically. An invigorating appraisal of revolutionary thought, Insurgencies is both the precursor to and the historical basis for Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt's masterwork, Empire.

At the center of this book is the conflict between ""constituent power,"" the democratic force of revolutionary innovation, and ""constituted power,"" the fixed power of formal constitutions and central authority. This conflict, Negri argues, defines the drama of modern rebellions. Now with a foreword by Michael Hardt, Insurgencies leads to a new notion of how power and action must be understood if we are to achieve a democratic future.

By: Antonio Negri
Translated by: Maurizia Boscagli, Maurizia Boscagli
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Volume: 15.00
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 703g
ISBN: 9780816667741
ISBN 10: 0816667748
Series: Theory Out of Bounds
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 01 January 2010
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Foreword Chapter 1. Constituent Power: The Concept of a CrisisOn the Juridical Concept of Constituent Power Absolute Procedure, Constitution, Revolution From Structure to the SubjectChapter 2. Virtue and Fortune: The Machiavellian Paradigm The Logic of Time and the Prince's Indecision Democracy as Absolute Government and the Reform of the Renaissance Critical Ontology of the Constituent PrincipleChapter 3. The Atlantic Model and the Theory of CounterpowerMutatio and Anakyclosis Harrington: Constituent Power as Counterpower The Constituent Motor and the Constitutionalist ObstacleChapter 4. Political Emancipation in the American ConstitutionConstituent Power and the ""Frontier"" of Freedom Homo Politicus and the Republican Machine Crisis of the Event and Inversion of the TendencyChapter 5. The Revolution and the Constitution of LaborRousseau's Enigma and the Time of the Sansculottes The Constitution of Labor To Terminate the RevolutionChapter 6. Communist Desire and the Dialectic RestoredConstituent Power in Revolutionary Materialism Lenin and the Soviets: The Institutional Compromise Socialism and EnterpriseChapter 7. The Constitution of Strength""Multitudo et Potentia"": The Problem Constitutive Disutopia Beyond ModernityNotes Index"

Antonio Negri, who has taught at the University of Padua and the University of Paris, is the author of more than thirty books, including Empire and Multitude, with Michael Hardt; The Savage Anomaly (Minnesota, 2000); and In Praise of the Common, with Cesare Casarino (Minnesota, 2008). Michael Hardt is professor of literature at Duke University. He is the author of Empire and Multitude, with Antonio Negri, as well as Labor of Dionysus and Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy, both published by the University of Minnesota Press.