{"product_id":"the-twilight-of-politics-mario-tronti-9781803093741","title":"The Twilight of Politics","description":"\u003cb\u003eA classic work of political theory by a major twentieth-century figure of the Italian Left.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Italian political thinker Mario Tronti is most famous for being the author of \u003ci\u003eWorkers and Capital\u003c\/i\u003e, which became the central theoretical formulation of Italian \u003ci\u003eoperaismo \u003c\/i\u003eor workerism, a current of political thought emerging in the 1960s that revolutionized the institutional and extra-parliamentary Left in Italy and beyond. In \u003ci\u003eThe Twilight of Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, written originally in 1998, Tronti argues that modern politics, which reached its apogee in the twentieth century, has ended. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Realism and Utopia, Tronti explains, were the foundational qualities of modern politics, which it always tried to clasp together. But behind this highwater mark of politics was a history over the longue dur馥, encompassing the wars of religion, Hobbes' \u003ci\u003eLeviathan\u003c\/i\u003e, revolution, great individuals, and popular movements, as well as innovations such as the nation-state and the party-form. Historically, the modern period is also a coming together of the categories of the political and the laws of political economy. At the heart of this book is Tronti's attempt to hold together a view of the course of political history with a critique of the \"dictatorship of the present\" to help us escape being \"chained to the bars of an eternal present . . . which deprives us both of the freedom to look back and to see ahead.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mario Tronti\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1803093749\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781803093741\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seagull Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/06\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Mario Tronti","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44790012313855,"sku":"9781803093741","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9989a5c1-b4c1-4244-a764-ee1fecf405dc.jpg?v=1707287712","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-twilight-of-politics-mario-tronti-9781803093741","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}