Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State (Volume 15) (Theory Out Of Bounds)

Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State (Volume 15) (Theory Out Of Bounds) by Negri, Antonio. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780816667741.

New Edition In the ten years since the initial publication of Insurgencies, Antonio Negris reputation as one of the worlds foremost political philosophers has grown dramatically. An invigorating appraisal of revolutionary thought, Insurgencies is both the precursor to and the historical basis for Antonio Negri and Michael Hardts masterwork, Empire. 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, Negri argues, defines the drama of modern rebellions. Now with a foreword by Michael Hardt, Insurgencies leads to a new notion of how power and action must be understood if we are to achieve a democratic future.