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Communism in Philosophy
Essays on Alain Badiou and Toni Negri
Series: - Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 345
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From the âred yearsâ that followed the social explosion of May '68 into the first decades of the 21st century, Alain Badiou and Toni Negri have produced two imposing and consequential bodies of philosophical writing, while never abandoning their commitment to a militant politics of equality. The essays collected in this book tackle multiple dimensions of their workâfrom ontology to biopolitics, from art to violence, from the theory of capitalism to the challenge of counter-revolution. But all of them are also efforts to explore and answer a single question: What does it mean to be a communist in philosophy?
Alberto Toscano is the author of Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis (2023), Terms of Disorder: Keywords for an Interregnum (2023), Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (2017, 2nd ed) and co-editor of The SAGE Handbook of Marxism (2022).
Introduction: The Communist Differend
1 Communism as Separation
2 Marxism Expatriated
3 From the State to the World
4 Can Violence Be Thought?
5 The Bourgeois and the Islamist, or, The Other Subjects of Politics
â1âSubjects of untruth
â2âAmbivalence of the bourgeoisie
â3âJustice and Terror, nihilists and renegades
â4âStruggles over subjective space
â5âThe obscure subject of current affairs
â6âConclusion
6 Emblems and Cuts: Philosophy in and Against History
7 Politics in Pre-Political Times
8 A Spectre is Not Haunting Europe
â1âThe desire for the state
â2âImperium, or, the circle of the state
â3âThinking communism outside the state
9 Communism and the Absolute
10 Chronicles of Insurrection: Operaismo and the Subject of Antagonism
â1âBefore Empire, behind the multitude
â2âTendency and communism
â3âTrontiâs Copernican revolution
â4âFantasy wears boots
11 Factory, Territory, Metropolis, Empire
12 Always Already Only Now: Limits of the Biopolitical
â1âQuestions of method
â2âMediation is dead, long live biopolitics
â3âThe biopolitical subject of living labour
â4âFrom biopolitics to class struggle and back again
â5âPeriodisation and production
â6âVitalism and social ontology
13 Art Against Empire
14 The Sensuous Religion of the Multitude: Aesthetics and Abstraction
15 Prison, Revolution and Counter-Revolution
16 A Communist Life: Toni Negri (1933â2023)
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Part 1 Alain Badiou, or, The Communist Separation
1 Communism as Separation
2 Marxism Expatriated
3 From the State to the World
4 Can Violence Be Thought?
5 The Bourgeois and the Islamist, or, The Other Subjects of Politics
â1âSubjects of untruth
â2âAmbivalence of the bourgeoisie
â3âJustice and Terror, nihilists and renegades
â4âStruggles over subjective space
â5âThe obscure subject of current affairs
â6âConclusion
6 Emblems and Cuts: Philosophy in and Against History
7 Politics in Pre-Political Times
8 A Spectre is Not Haunting Europe
â1âThe desire for the state
â2âImperium, or, the circle of the state
â3âThinking communism outside the state
9 Communism and the Absolute
Part 2 Toni Negri, or, The Communist Tendency
10 Chronicles of Insurrection: Operaismo and the Subject of Antagonism
â1âBefore Empire, behind the multitude
â2âTendency and communism
â3âTrontiâs Copernican revolution
â4âFantasy wears boots
11 Factory, Territory, Metropolis, Empire
12 Always Already Only Now: Limits of the Biopolitical
â1âQuestions of method
â2âMediation is dead, long live biopolitics
â3âThe biopolitical subject of living labour
â4âFrom biopolitics to class struggle and back again
â5âPeriodisation and production
â6âVitalism and social ontology
13 Art Against Empire
14 The Sensuous Religion of the Multitude: Aesthetics and Abstraction
15 Prison, Revolution and Counter-Revolution
16 A Communist Life: Toni Negri (1933â2023)
Note on Texts
Bibliography
Index
This book is especially relevant to students and scholars of French theory, contemporary European philosophy, Marxism, and political theory, university libraries with collections in these fields, and political activists engaged in theoretical debates on these topics.