Toni Negri: Singularities, multitudes: for a participatory politics of the common

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In Italian with English subtitles

Toni Negri (*1933 in Padua / Italy) is a political scientist and leading representative of the “workerist” (Operaismo) reading of Marxism. He was a professor of Philosophy of Law at the Institute of Political Science of the University of Padua. In the 1960s and 1970s, he was one of the leaders of the Italian social and political opposition movement. Negri’s work focuses on political philosophy and globalization issues. Together with the American philosopher Michael Hardt, he authored the books Empire(Cambridge, MA).: Harvard University Press, 2000), Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (New York: The Penguin Press, 2004), Commonwealth (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), and Assembly (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017). His most recent book is Marx in Movement: Operaismo in Context (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021).