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Four men in a cell in Rebibbia prison, Rome, awaiting trial on serious charges of subversion. One of them, the political thinker Antonio Negri, spends his days writing. Among his writings are twenty letters addressed to a young friend in France letters in which Negri reflects on his own personal development as a philosopher, theorist and political activist and analyses the events, activities and movements in which he has been involved. The letters recount an existential journey that links a rigorous philosophical education with a powerful political passion, set against the historical backdrop of postwar Italy. Crucially, Negri recalls the pivotal moment in 1978 when the former prime minister of Italy, Aldo Moro, was kidnapped and killed by the Red Brigades, and how the institutions then pinned that killing onto him and his associates.Published here for the first time, these letters offer a unique and invaluable insight into the factors that shaped the thinking of one of the most influential political theorists of our time and they document Negri's role in the development of political movements like Autonomia. They are a vivid testimony to one man's journey through the political upheavals and intellectual traditions of the late 20th century, in the course of which he produced a body of work that has had, and continues to have, a profound impact on radical thought and politics around the world. Antonio Negriis one of the leading political theorists in the world today. His many books include Empire and Multitude, both co-authored with Michael Hardt. He taught at the University of Paris VIII (Vincennes-St Denis) and the International College of Philosophy. Translated by Ed Emery

Antoni Negri stellt vier Typen des Menschen vor: Den verschuldeten Menschen, den vernetzten Menschen, den verwahrten Menschen und den vertretenen Menschen. Anhand dieser Typen lotet Negri die Möglichkeit aus 'Gemeinschaft' wiederherzustellen, ohne die es kein politisches Handeln geben kann: »Wenn wir bis jetzt die ?Politik der Pluralität? errichtet haben, müssen wir nun die ?ontologische Maschine? der Pluralität selbst in Gang bringen.«

Cover -- HalfTitle -- Series -- Time for Revolution -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Translator's Introduction -- I -- II -- III -- Part One The Constitution of Time -- Premble -- Chapter 1 First Displacement: The Time of Subsumed Being -- Time-as-measure and productive time -- Tautology and composition -- An Umwelt of antagonism -- Displacement, hysteresis, asymmetry, innovation -- Chapter 2 First Construction: Collective Time A -- Ascesis and ecstasy: Analytic of circulation -- Chapter 3 First Construction: Collective Time B -- Crisis: Towards a phenomenology of collective praxis -- Chapter 4 Second Construction: Productive Time A -- Money, value, nomenclature: Between timepiece and war -- Energy: Evanescence of space -- Chapter 5 Second Construction: Productive Time B -- Refusal of work and productive co-operation -- Internal time and external time -- Chapter 6 Third Construction: Constitutive Time A -- The hard time of the State: Information and legitimation -- Chapter 7 Third Construction: Constitutive Time B -- The time of class struggle: The new institutionality -- Pluralism and dualism: On the logical matrices -- The body and the time of constitution -- Chapter 8 Second Displacement: The Time of Revolution W -- The project and death: Now-time (Jetzt-Zeit) -- Endogenous processes and exogenous processes: Analytic and catastrophe -- Chapter 9 Third Displacement: The Time of Revolution Y -- The time machine -- Constitution and class struggle -- Afterword -- Part two Kairòs, Alma Venus, Multitudo -- Introduction -- Kairòs -- Prolegomena -- The common name -- The immeasurable -- The materialist field -- Alma Venus -- Prolegomena -- The common -- Poverty -- Love -- Multitudo -- Prolegomena -- Politics -- Living labour -- The decision -- Notes -- Bibliography.

Biographical note: Antonio Negri war nach seiner Flucht 1983 aus Italien Professor für Philosophie an der Sorbonne. 1997 kehrte er nach Italien zurück und wurde erneut inhaftiert. Im Herbst 2003 wurde er freigelassen und lebt heute als freier Autor in Rom. Michael Hardt ist Professor für Literaturwissenschaft an der Duke University Durham, N. C., in den USA. Mit ihrem Bestseller »Empire« (auf Deutsch bei Campus 2002 erschienen) wurden sie weltweit bekannt.