Antonio Negri

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Antonio Negri

Antonio Negri (born August 1, 1933 in Padua ), also known as Toni Negri for short , is an Italian political scientist and an important representative of the neo-Marxist current of operaism .

life and work

Negri was a member of the activist Catholic youth Gioventù Italiana di Azione Cattolica (GIAC) at a young age . In 1956 he joined the Socialist Party of Italy (PSI). At the beginning of the 1960s he was involved in the editorial team of Quaderni Rossi . Negri and other operaists dominated the local PSI ( Progresso Veneto ) newspaper . Negri was a councilor for PSI in Padua. He left the Socialist Party in 1964 to protest against the coalition with the Christian Democrats (DC). In 1963 there was a break in the editorial team at Quaderni Rossi . Raniero Panzieri and his followers stayed, Romano Alquati , Alberto Asor Rosa, Rita Di Leo, Pier Luigi Gasparotto, Claudio Greppi, Toni Negri, Massimo Paci and Mario Tronti left the QR and founded the magazine Classe operaia (January 1964).

At the age of 33, Antonio Negri became professor of state theory at the elite university of Padua at a very young age .

After a break with Mario Tronti in 1966, Negri was co-founder and general secretary of the Potere Operaio group in 1969 . In the early 1970s he announced the end of the law of value and propagated the armed uprising. Potere Operaio disbanded in 1973, many members and sympathizers were drawn to the Prima Linea , an armed group, while others joined the Autonomia Negris. Negri reacted to the burgeoning '77 movement , which openly broke with all traditional ideas of the labor movement , including those of the '68, with the term “social worker”. The factory is no longer the central place of production and struggle, but the whole of society. The confrontations with the symbols of the state became more violent, armed demonstrations took place and there were exchanges of fire with the police. Red Brigadists murdered Aldo Moro in 1978 , and the state reaction that followed caught the '77 movement.

On April 7, 1979, Negri and many other intellectuals and university lecturers associated with the Autonomia Organizzata were arrested and charged as terrorists and for attempted coup against the state. The Autonomia Organizzata was accused of being the head of the Red Brigades . Negri was sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment in 1984 and another four and a half in 1986 for moral support of clashes in the 1960s and 1970s. While his formal indictment was being prepared, Negri was elected to parliament for the Radical Party in 1983 . Before his parliamentary immunity could be lifted, Negri fled to France, where he lived and wrote and taught for 14 years.

He dealt intensively with post-structuralist thinkers such as Michel Foucault and above all Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari and wrote a book about Spinoza . In 1997 he returned to Rome and was arrested, but spent the last few years of his imprisonment in prison only for one night. However, he was banned from teaching. Negri was released in 2003. He later also wrote for the magazine Futur Antérieur .

Toni Negri 's comprehensive tract, Empire - the new world order , written with Michael Hardt , followed by the programmatic multitude and the third part, Commonwealth (Sept. 2009, Common Wealth , 2010), turned the authors into star intellectuals, especially those of the left critical of globalization Find a response. Negri and Hardt met in Paris in 1986 and became friends over the course of a one-week working week together. Hardt was busy translating Negri's Spinoza book into English at the time.

At the suggestion of Parisian director Barbara Nicolier , Negri wrote Essaim , a stage version of Empire, in 2005 . Schwarm had the German premiere in January 2009 at the Bielefeld Theater, directed by Christian Schlueter, with Silvia Weiskopf in the lead role.

Toni Negri is a member of the movement Democracy in Europe 2025 (DiEM25) founded in 2016.

Fonts (selection)

  • Partito operaio contro il lavoro , 1974.
  • Marx oltre Marx , 1979.
  • L'anomalia selvaggia , Feltrinelli, Milan 1981.
    • in German: The wild anomaly: Baruch Spinoza's design of a free society , Wagenbach, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-8031-3507-9 .
  • Il potere costituente. Saggio sulle alternative del moderno , SugarCo, Carnago, Varese 1992, ISBN 88-7198-179-0 ; New edition Manifestolibri, Rome 2002, ISBN 88-7285-263-3 .
    • French edition: Le pouvoir constituant: essai sur les alternatives de la modernité , translated from Italian by Étienne Balibar and François Matheron, Presses universitaires de France, Paris 1997, ISBN 2130481213 .
    • English edition: Insurgencies: constituent power and the modern state , University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minn. 1999, ISBN 0-8166-2274-4 .
  • with Michael Hardt Empire , Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2001
  • with Michael Hardt The Work of Dionysus : Materialist State Criticism in Postmodernism. (From the Italian and English by Thomas Atzert and Sabine Grimm), ID-Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-89408-058-2 .
  • with Michael Hardt Multitude: war and democracy in the age of empire , Penguin Books, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-101487-3 .
    • German: Multitude: War and Democracy in Empire , translated by Thomas Atzert and Andreas Wirthensohn, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-593-37410-2 .
  • with Michael Hardt Commonwealth , Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2009, ISBN 978-0-674-03511-9 .
    • German: Common Wealth: the end of property , translated by Thomas Atzert and Andreas Wirthensohn, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-593-39169-4 .
  • with Michael Hardt Declaration , 2012.
    • German: Democracy! What we fight for , Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2013, ISBN 978-3-593-39825-9 .
  • Antonio Negri Illustrated: Interview in Venice , Red Quill Books, Ontario 2011, ISBN 978-1926958132 .
  • with Michael Hardt: Assembly , Oxford University Press 2017 (e-book).

See also

Movies

  • Antonio Negri. A revolt that won't end . Documentary by Alexandra Weltz and Andreas Pichler. Producer: Christian Beetz . Germany 2004. Gebrueder beetz film production / ZDF / arte; 52 minutes. Distribution and DVD order: Neue Visionen Filmverleih.
  • Angela Melitopoulos : Antonio Negri - The Cell , Actar, ISBN 978-84-96540-89-7

Web links

Commons : Antonio Negri  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ See: Thore Prien: Antonio Negri (born 1933) and Michael Hardt (born 1960), in: Rüdiger Voigt (ed.): State thinking. On the state of state theory today, Baden-Baden 2016, p. 410.
  2. ↑ Hartmut Rosa, David Strecker and Andrea Kottmann: Soziologische Theorien , UTB, Stuttgart, 2nd ed., 2013, p. 263.
  3. ↑ See: Thore Prien: Antonio Negri (born 1933) and Michael Hardt (born 1960), p. 411.
  4. ↑ Tania Martini: “The seducer of youth. Empire as a play ”, in taz from January 12, 2009 online
  5. ^ Movement website
personal data
SURNAME Negri, Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Negri, Toni (short form)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian moral and political philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Padua