Negri on Negri: in conversation with Anne Dufourmentelle [Paperback]

Antonio Negri (Author)

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Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (Dec 9 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 041596895X
ISBN-13: 978-0415968959
Product Dimensions: 21 x 14.2 x 1.5 cm
Shipping Weight: 286 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,687,676 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Political philosopher, convicted activist, leftist intellectual and coauthor of the bestselling Empire, Antonio Negri is one of the most controversial thinkers at work today. In this booklength conversation with Anne Dufourmentelle, Negri offers thoughtful responses to twenty-six terms, alphabetically arranged, that have had special significance for his life and work. Negri speaks openly here of his involvement with political movements, his exile, his return to Italy and years there in prison, and his life since. But beyond the biographical there is much here to explain Negri's ideas on globalization, the future of social change, and the history of political thought. The book's subjects - fascism, Heidegger, the Red Brigades, Wittgenstein, empire, Kant, the unconscious, and many others - are often thresholds from which Negri shares his views on still larger topics. Negri on Negri provides a fascinating glimpse into his mind and life. Perhaps nowhere else can one engage so readily the ideas of this major contemporary thinker.

About the Author

Antonio Negri is an independent scholar. He has taught political science at the University of Paris and at the University of Padua. He lives in Rome.
Anne Dufourmentelle, a philosopher and psychoanalyst, is a professor at the Ecole d'architecture La Villette in Paris. She has published Of Hospitality: Anne Dufourmantelle Invites Jacques Derrida to Respond (Stanford, 2000). Malcolm DeBevoise has translated books for Princeton and Harvard University Press.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent introduction to a key thinker of our time, Mar 8 2005

By Philippe Vandenbroeck - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Negri on Negri: in conversation with Anne Dufourmentelle (Paperback)

This is a most interesting introduction to the thinking of Antonio Negri, who has emerged as one of the more provocative thinkers of our time.

The book is conceived as a series of conversations around approximately 50 entries in a Negrian lexicon, divided into 26 chapters, each of which refers to a letter in the alphabet.

There is a mixture of biographical anecdote and conceptual excursion that makes for compelling reading. Those wishing for insight into Negri's personal journey are offered a candid account of his activist 1970s and 80s in Italy and his exile in France. Readers wishing a relatively accessible introduction to Negri's more substantial works are introduced to most of the key concepts in his thinking (empire, multitude, biopolitical production, singularity, kairos, resistance, ...) In the first half of the book, Negri deals with the "lovely paradox" of self-defeating growth which capitalism has wrought upon itself. In the latter half of the book, Negri develops his alternative of a radical democracy based on a voluntarist, Spinozian materialism.

I'm slightly puzzled as to why Negri has chosen Anne Dufourementelle as his interlocutor. Sometimes she is right on the ball, coaxing Negri into very personal observations or a sophisticated line of argument. At other times the interviewer leaves interesting tangents unexplored or indulges into psychoanalytic hobbyhorses (on which Negri has not a lot to say). But I admit that thanks to the sometimes surprising twists in Dufourmentelle's interview tactics, themes weave their threads across the whole length of the book, creating a coherent, multifaceted image of Negri's thinking and biography. Definitely recommended.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent introduction, Dec 16 2004

By S. T. Sullivan "law student, culture vulture,... - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Negri on Negri: in conversation with Anne Dufourmentelle (Paperback)

I can't believe with all the buzz around Hardt and Negri that no one has reviewed this little book of interviews. This is Negri at his most accessible, talking about his history, both the personal and political and about the ideas that went into Empire, the book that made a splash in lefty intellectual circles some years back.

The book is organized alphabetically, starting with A for Armed Struggle. Appropriate since Negri served a serious prison sentence for his alledged involvement in the Red Brigades, the left wing terorist organization in Italy in the seventies and eighties (he denies the charges in the book).

This is a great place to start with a very important thinker whose writing tends to be rather difficult. Check this out, and if you think he's maaking sense, get Empire.

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