{"product_id":"books-for-burning-isbn-9781844670345","title":"Books for Burning","description":"Long before \u003ci\u003eAntonio Negri\u003c\/i\u003e became famous around the world for his groundbreaking volume \u003ci\u003eEmpire\u003c\/i\u003e, he was infamous across Europe for the incendiary writings contained in this book. \u003ci\u003eBooks for Burning\u003c\/i\u003e consists of five pamphlets that Negri wrote between 1971 and 1977, which attempt to identify and draw lessons from new conditions of class struggle that emerged in the course of the 1970s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConceived as organizational hypotheses intended for debate among the members of the political movements Workers’ Power (\u003ci\u003ePotere operaio\u003c\/i\u003e) and Organized Autonomy (\u003ci\u003eAutonomia organizzata\u003c\/i\u003e), these texts were later misread and misrepresented by the Italian state in its attempt to frame Negri as responsible for the assassination of former Italian president Aldo Moro, as the leader of the Red Brigades, and as the mastermind of an armed insurrection against the state. In the more than twenty-five years since their first publication, these texts have lost none of their originality, relevance or power to shock.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a new preface, Negri demonstrates how his controversial work on empire, biopolitics and immaterial labor developed out of concepts and strategies first outlined in this book, and an editorial introduction analyzes the role these texts played in Negri’s trial and in the criminalization of the Italian radical workers’ movement.\u003cb\u003eAntonio Negri\u003c\/b\u003e has taught philosophy and political science at the Universities of Padua and Paris; he has also been a political prisoner in Italy and a political refugee in France. He is the author of over thirty books, including \u003ci\u003ePolitical Descartes, Marx Beyond Marx, The Savage Anomaly, The Politics of Subversion, Insurgencies, Subversive Spinoza,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTime for Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e, and, in collaboration with Michael Hardt, \u003ci\u003eLabor of Dionysus, Empire\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMultitude\u003c\/i\u003e. He currently lives in Paris and Venice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimothy S. Murphy\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. He is the translator of Antonio Negri’s \u003ci\u003eSubversive Spinoza\u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eResistance in Practice: The Philosophy of Antonio Negri\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304017809637,"sku":"NP9781844670345","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781844670345.jpg?v=1767722945","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/books-for-burning-isbn-9781844670345","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}