In this Book
- Insurgencies: Constituent Power And The Modern State
- Book
- 1999
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
- Series: Theory Out Of Bounds
summary
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.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9780816685189
Related ISBN(s)
9780816622757
MARC Record
OCLC
614485218
Pages
384
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No