Negri on Negri

Political philosopher, convicted activist, leftist intellectual and coauthor of the bestselling Empire, Antonio Negri is one of the most controversial thinkers at work today. In this booklength conversation with Anne Dufourmentelle, Negri offers thoughtful responses to twenty-six terms, alphabetically arranged, that have had special significance for his life and work. Negri speaks openly here of his involvement with political movements, his exile, his return to Italy and years there in prison, and his life since. But beyond the biographical there is much here to explain Negri's ideas on globalization, the future of social change, and the history of political thought. The book's subjects - fascism, Heidegger, the Red Brigades, Wittgenstein, empire, Kant, the unconscious, and many others - are often thresholds from which Negri shares his views on still larger topics. Negri on Negri provides a fascinating glimpse into his mind and life. Perhaps nowhere else can one engage so readily the ideas of this major contemporary thinker.

Antonio Negri is an independent scholar. He has taught political science at the University of Paris and at the University of Padua. He lives in Rome.AnneDufourmentelle, a philosopher and psychoanalyst, is a professor at the Ecole d'architecture La Villette in Paris. She has published Of Hospitality: AnneDufourmantelle Invites Jacques Derrida to Respond (Stanford, 2000). Malcolm DeBevoise has translated books for Princeton and Harvard University Press.