New Edition
In the ten years since the initial publication ofInsurgencies, 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,Insurgenciesleads to a new notion of how power and action must be understood if we are to achieve a democratic future.
Antonio Negri, who has taught at the University of Padua and the University of Paris, is the author of more than thirty books, includingEmpire and Multitude, with Michael Hardt;The Savage Anomaly(Minnesota, 2000); andIn Praise of the Common, with Cesare Casarino (Minnesota, 2008).
Michael Hardt is professor of literature at Duke University. He is the author ofEmpire and Multitude, with Antonio Negri, as well asLabor of DionysusandGilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy, both published by the University of Minnesota Press.
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 ConstlCI
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