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Antonio Negri
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Italian political philosopher (1933–2023)
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Antonio Negri (1933–2023) was an Italian philosopher, politician, economist, and sociologist. Born in Padua, he was educated at the University of Padua and the École Normale Supérieure. He worked in Rome, Paris, and Padua, holding positions at Duke University, Paris 8 University, the Collège international de philosophie, and the University of Padua. Negri was a member of the Radical Party, Potere Operaio, Autonomia Operaia, and the Italian Socialist Party.
His field of work included political philosophy, class struggle, globalization, and the commons, associated with the autonomism movement. Influenced by Benedictus de Spinoza, Karl Marx, Gilles Deleuze, and Michel Foucault, he spoke Italian and French. Notable works include *Empire*, *Multitude*, *Demokratie!*, *Assembly*, *Story of a Communist*, and *In Gondoleta*. He died in Paris, Villejuif.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 60
Top works
- L'indicatore delle leggi ed ordinazioni dall'anno 1796 a tutto il 1834 nei rapporti giudiziarii pel regno Lombardo-Veneto
- In Gondoleta
- Multitude
- Demokratie!
- Assembly
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 13
- Total plays
- 20
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,937x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,832x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,938x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,840x
- Sarcopenia: revised European consensus on definition and diagnosis
· 2018 · cited 11,526x
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Quotes
- “Empire is emerging today as the center that supports the globalization of productive networks and casts its widely inclusive net to try to envelop all power relations within its — and yet at the same time it deploys a powerful police function against the new barbarians and the rebellious slaves who threaten its order.”
- “We are by no means opposed to the globalization of relationships as such—in fact, as we said, the strongest forces of Leftist internationalism have effectively led this process. The enemy, rather, is a specific regime of global relations that we call Empire.”
- “The legacy of modernity is a legacy of fratricidal wars, devastating "development," cruel "civilization," and previously unimagined violence. Erich Auerbach once wrote that tragedy is the only genre that can properly claim realism in Western literature, and perhaps this is true precisely because of the tragedy Western modernity has imposed on the world.”
- “Philosophy is not the owl of Minerva that takes flight after history has been realized in order to celebrate its happy ending; rather, philosophy is subjective proposition, desire, and praxis that are applied to the event.”
- “[The] fact of being within capital and sustaining capital is what defines the proletariat as a class.”
- “The multitude is the real productive force of our social world, whereas Empire is a mere apparatus of capture that lives only off the vitality of the multitude — as Marx would say, a vampire regime of accumulated dead labor that survives only by sucking off the blood of the living.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1933-08-01 ) 1 August 1933, Padua , Kingdom of Italy
- Died
- 16 December 2023 (2023-12-16) (aged 90), Paris, France
- Alma mater
- University of Padua Istituto italiano per gli studi storici [ it ]
- Academic advisor
- Umberto Antonio Padovani [ it ]
- Era
- Contemporary philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Continental philosophy Autonomist Marxism
- Institutions
- University of Padua University of Paris VIII University of Paris VII École Normale Supérieure CIPh
- Main interests
- Political philosophy class conflict globalization commons biopolitics
- Notable ideas
- Philosophy of globalization multitude theory of Empire constituent power immaterial labour post-Fordism altermodernity refusal of work
- Constituency
- Milan–Pavia
- Party
- PSI (1956–1963), Potere Operaio (1967–1973), Autonomia Operaia (1976–1978), PR (1983–1987)
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Antonio Negri, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~31 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Antonio Negri (/ˈnɛɡri/; Italian: [ˈneːɡri]; 1 August 1933 – 16 December 2023) was an Italian political philosopher known as one of the most prominent theorists of autonomism, as well as for his co-authorship of Empire with Michael Hardt. Born in Padua, Italy, Negri became a professor of political philosophy at the University of Padua, where he taught state and constitutional theory. Negri founded the Potere Operaio (Worker Power) group in 1969 and was a leading member of Autonomia Operaia, and published highly influential books, including Empire and Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire.
Negri was accused in the late 1970s of being the mastermind of the left-wing urban guerrilla organization Red Brigades (Brigate Rosse or BR), which was involved in the May 1978 kidnapping and murder of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro. On 7 April 1979, Negri was arrested and charged with a number of crimes, including the Moro murder. Most charges were quickly dropped, but in 1984, having fled to France, he was sentenced in absentia to 30 years in prison. He was given an additional four years on the charge of being morally responsible for the violence of political activists in the 1960s and 1970s. The question of Negri's involvement with left-wing extremism is a controversial subject. He was indicted on a number of charges, including "association and insurrection against the state" (a charge which was later dropped), and sentenced for involvement in two murders.
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