Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State
New Edition\ 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...
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At a time when political paradigms are collapsing, and the death of Marxism and the Left is proclaimed, Insurgencies offers an intellectually invigorating and historically wide-ranging appraisal of the real legacy and promise of revolutionary thought and practice.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, Antonio Negri argues, defines the drama of modern rebellions, from Machiavelli's Florence and Harrington's England to the American, French, and Russian revolutions. Insurgencies leads to a new notion of how power and action must be understood if we are to achieve a radically democratic future.
ForewordCh. 1Constituent Power: The Concept of a Crisis1Ch. 2Virtue and Fortune: The Machiavellian Paradigm37Ch. 3The Atlantic Model and the Theory of Counterpower99Ch. 4Political Emancipation in the American Constitution141Ch. 5The Revolution and the Constitution of Labor193Ch. 6Communist Desire and the Dialectic Restored251Ch. 7The Constitution of Strength303Notes337Index365
