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Book SynopsisIn 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. 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.
Table of ContentsForeword
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
