The Cell [Audiobook] [DVD]

Antonio Negri (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 13, 2008

For Antonio Negri, renowned political philosopher and author of the international bestseller "Empire" (co-authored with Michael Hardt, 2000), a 17 year long chapter of repressive Italian politics of detention, exile, and imprisonment recently ended. The question for Negri is how one can preserve the freedom of spirit within a penal structure that focuses more on the interior than exterior life of the prisoner. For Antonio Negri, the cell of resistance from which he wrote became an enclosure of peace.

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About the Author

Negri is best-known for his co-authorship of Empire and his work on Spinoza. Born in Padua, he became a political philosophy professor, founded Potere Operaio (Worker Power) group in 1969 and was a leading member of the Autonomia Operaia. Accused in the late 1970s of being the mastermind of the Red Brigades (BR), he was sentenced to a long-term prison sentence on controversial charges of "association and insurrection against the state." Negri went to France and taught at the Universite de Vincennes (Paris-VIII) and the College International de Philosophie, along with Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze. In 1997, he voluntarily returned to Italy to serve the end of his sentence. He now lives in Padua. Among the central themes in Negri's work are Marxism, democratic globalization, anti-capitalism, postmodernism, neoliberalism, democracy, the commons, and the multitude.

Product Details

• DVD
• Publisher: Actar; DVD edition (October 13, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 8496540898
• ISBN-13: 978-8496540897
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,108,671 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)