Insurgencies

Insurgencies

Constituent Power and the Modern State

Antonio Negri
Foreword by Michael Hardt
Translated by Maurizia Boscagli

Table of Contents

$30.00 Paper
ISBN: 978-0-8166-6774-1

An important work of revolutionary thought—with a new foreword

In 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. 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, Insurgencies leads 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, including Empire and Multitude, with Michael Hardt; The Savage Anomalyy (Minnesota, 2000); and In Praise of the Common, with Cesare Casarino (Minnesota, 2008).

Michael Hardt is professor of literature at Duke University. He is the author of Empire and Multitude, with Antonio Negri, as well as Labor of Dionysus and Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy, both published by the University of Minnesota Press.

384 pages | 7 x 10 | 2009
Theory Out of Bounds Series, volume 15
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword

Chapter 1.            Constituent Power: The Concept of a Crisis
                        On the Juridical Concept of Constituent Power
                        Absolute Procedure, Constitution, Revolution
                        From Structure to the Subject

Chapter2.            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 Principle

Chapter 3.             The Atlantic Model and the Theory of Counterpower
                        Mutatio and Anakyclosis
                        Harrington: Constituent Power as Counterpower
                        The Constituent Motor and the Constitutionalist Obstacle

Chapter 4.            Political Emancipation in the American Constitution
                        Constituent Power and the “Frontier” of Freedom
                        Homo Politicus and the Republican Machine
                        Crisis of the Event and Inversion of the Tendency

Chapter 5.            The Revolution and the Constitution of Labor
                        Rousseau’s Enigma and the Time of the Sansculottes
                        The Constitution of Labor
                        To Terminate the Revolution

Chapter 6.            Communist Desire and the Dialectic Restored
                        Constituent Power in Revolutionary Materialism
                        Lenin and the Soviets: The Institutional Compromise
                        Socialism and Enterprise

Chapter 7.            The Constitution of Strength
                        “Multitudo et Potentia”: The Problem
                        Constitutive Disutopia
                        Beyond Modernity

Notes
Index



Insurgencies *Constituent Power and the Modern State* Antonio Negri Foreword by Michael Hardt Translated by Maurizia Boscagli Table of Contents		$30.00 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-6774-1
An important work of revolutionary thought—with a new foreword In 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. 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, Insurgencies leads 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, including Empire and Multitude, with Michael Hardt; The Savage Anomalyy (Minnesota, 2000); and In Praise of the Common, with Cesare Casarino (Minnesota, 2008). Michael Hardt is professor of literature at Duke University. He is the author of Empire and Multitude, with Antonio Negri, as well as Labor of Dionysus and Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy, both published by the University of Minnesota Press. 384 pages \| 7 x 10 \| 2009 Theory Out of Bounds Series, volume 15 TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword Chapter 1. Constituent Power: The Concept of a Crisis On the Juridical Concept of Constituent Power Absolute Procedure, Constitution, Revolution From Structure to the Subject Chapter2. 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 Principle Chapter 3. The Atlantic Model and the Theory of Counterpower Mutatio and Anakyclosis Harrington: Constituent Power as Counterpower The Constituent Motor and the Constitutionalist Obstacle Chapter 4. Political Emancipation in the American Constitution Constituent Power and the “Frontier” of Freedom Homo Politicus and the Republican Machine Crisis of the Event and Inversion of the Tendency Chapter 5. The Revolution and the Constitution of Labor Rousseau’s Enigma and the Time of the Sansculottes The Constitution of Labor To Terminate the Revolution Chapter 6. Communist Desire and the Dialectic Restored Constituent Power in Revolutionary Materialism Lenin and the Soviets: The Institutional Compromise Socialism and Enterprise Chapter 7. The Constitution of Strength “Multitudo et Potentia”: The Problem Constitutive Disutopia Beyond Modernity Notes Index