Radical Thought in Italy: A Potential Politics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780816649242)

Over the past several decades, Italian revolutionary politics has offered a model for new forms of political thinking. Radical Thought in Italy continues that tradition by providing an original view of the potential for a radical democratic politics today that speaks not only to the Italian situation but also to a broadly international context. First, the essays settle accounts with the culture of cynicism, opportunism, and fear that has come to permeate the Left. They then proceed to analyze the new difficulties and possibilities opened by current economic conditions and the crisis of the welfare state. Finally, the authors propose a series of new concepts that are helpful in rethinking revolution for our times. Contributors: Giorgio Agamben, U of Verona and Coll ge Internationale de Philosophie, Paris; Massimo De Carolis, U of Salerno; Alisa Del Re, U of Padua; Augusto Illuminati, U of Urbino; Maurizio Lazzarato; Antonio Negri, U of Paris VIII; Franco Piperno, U of Calabria; Marco Revelli, U of Turin; Rossana Rossanda; Carlo Vercellone; Adelino Zanini. Paolo Virno is the author of several books, including the recently translated A Grammar of the Multitude. Michael Hardt is professor of literature and romance studies at Duke University.

Author: Paolo Virno
ISBN-10: 0816649243
ISBN-13: 9780816649242
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Language: English
Published: 10/05/2006
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.08w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 151