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Title: The Common
Condition: New
EAN: 9781509544271
ISBN: 9781509544271
Publisher: Polity Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 06/30/2023
Description: This final volume in Antonio Negri’s new trilogy aims to clarify and develop the ‘common’ as a key concept of radical thought. Here the term is understood in a double sense: on the one hand, as a collective of production and consumption in which the domination of capital has been completely realized; on the other hand, as the cooperation of workers and citizens and their assertion of political power. The maturation of this duality was the sign of the limits of capitalism in our age; the common showed itself as the active force that recomposed production, society and life in a new experience of freedom.

Today the promise of freedom seems undermined by the very institutions founded to uphold it, as the charters of western democracy seek to prioritize individualism. Negri advocates instead a free society founded on the premise that the good life is to be collectively ordered – in other words, a society that elevates the common. In his vision, giving political expression to those who work and produce is the only way of overturning totalitarian exploitation and of enabling every citizen to participate in the development of the city. 

Like its companion volumes, this new collection of essays by Negri will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in radical politics and in the key social and political struggles of our time.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 157mm
Item Width: 16mm
Item Weight: 312g
Author: Antonio Negri
Translator: Ed Emery
Contributor: Ed Emery (Translated by)
Genre: Law & Politics
Release Year: 2023

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