Marx and Foucault : essays. Volume 1 / Antonio Negri ; translated by Ed Emery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Negri, Antonio, 1933-2023, author.

Contributor:

Emery, Ed, translator.

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

Marx, Karl.

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Foucault, Michel.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Economics--Philosophy.

Economics.

Sociology--Philosophy.

Sociology.

Philosophy, Marxist.

Physical Description:

vi, 206 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2017.

Summary:

This is the first volume in a new three-part series in which Antonio Negri, a leading political thinker of our time, explores key ideas that have animated radical thought and examines some of the social and economic forces that are shaping our world today. In this first volume Negri shows how the thinking of Marx and Foucault were brought together to create an original theoretical synthesis - particularly in the context of Italy from May '68 onwards. At around that time, the structures of industry and production began to change radically due to the emergence of new producer-subjects and new fields of capitalist value creation. New concepts and theories were developed by Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari and others to help make sense of these and related developments - concepts such as biopower and biopolitics, subjectivation and subsumption, public and common, power and potentiality. These concepts and theories are examined by Negri within the broader context of the development of European philosophical discourse in the twentieth century. Marx and Foucault offers a unique account of the development of radical thought in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and will be a key text for anyone interested in radical politics today. Marx and Foucault offers a unique account of the development of radical thought in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and will be a key text for anyone interested in radical politics today. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I

1 Why Marx? 17

2 Reflections on the Use of Dialectics 32

3 Thoughts Regarding 'Critical Foresight' in the Unpublished Chapter VI of Marx's Capital, Volume 1 42

4 Acting in Common, and the Limits of Capital 58

5 Is It Possible to Be Communists without Marx? 70

Part II

6 An Italian Breakpoint: Production versus Development 81

7 On 'Italian Theory' 91

8 The Constitution of the Common and the Logics of the Left 100

9 On the Future of the European Social Democracies 110

10 Let's Start Reading Gramsci Again 117

11 Biopower and Biopolitics: Subjectivities in Struggle 121

Part III

12 On the Method of Political Critique 137

13 How and When I Read Foucault 155

14 Gilles Felix: The How and When of Deleuze-Guattari 166

15 Observations on the 'Production of Subjectivity': On an Intervention by Pierre Macherey Co-authored with Judith Revel 183

16 Marx after Foucault: The Subject Refound 188.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781509503407

1509503404

9781509503414

1509503412

OCLC:

954428480