The Twilight of Politics
Seagull Books London Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80309-374-1 (ISBN)
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Italian political thinker Mario Tronti is most famous for being the author of Workers and Capital, which became the central theoretical formulation of Italian operaismo or workerism, a current of political thought emerging in the 1960s that revolutionized the institutional and extra-parliamentary Left in Italy and beyond. In The Twilight of Politics, written originally in 1998, Tronti argues that modern politics, which reached its apogee in the twentieth century, has ended.
Realism and Utopia, Tronti explains, were the foundational qualities of modern politics, which it always tried to clasp together. But behind this highwater mark of politics was a history over the longue durée, encompassing the wars of religion, Hobbes’ Leviathan, revolution, great individuals, and popular movements, as well as innovations such as the nation-state and the party-form. Historically, the modern period is also a coming together of the categories of the political and the laws of political economy. At the heart of this book is Tronti’s attempt to hold together a view of the course of political history with a critique of the “dictatorship of the present” to help us escape being “chained to the bars of an eternal present . . . which deprives us both of the freedom to look back and to see ahead.”
Mario Tronti is the author of Workers and Capital. An active member of the Italian Communist Party, he taught philosophy at the University of Siena, served as a member of the Italian Senate twice, and published several books and articles. He divides his time between Rome and Umbria. Matteo Mandarini is a senior lecturer in politics and organization at Queen Mary University of London. He is the translator of several books, including The Writer and the People and Hamletics.
Translator’s Foreword
Note on Translation
A Brief Antiphon
Theme with Variation
Politics History Twentieth Century / Politics Against History
The Great Twentieth Century
The Small Twentieth Century
Nostalgic Inhabitants of the Century
‘Paix impossible, guerre improbable’
Force Against Violence
Workers and Politics
Once Again, and in Conclusion, on the Autonomy of the Political
Interlude
The Party and its Destiny
Five Movements
Politik als Beruf: the End
The Prince and Utopia
Karl und Carl
Politics and Prophecy
Kommunisms oder Europa
A Final Motif
Theses on Benjamin
Author’s Postface (2022): After the Twilight of Politics, the Night of History
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.11.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The Italian List |
| Übersetzer | Matteo Mandarini |
| Vorwort | Matteo Mandarini |
| Verlagsort | Greenford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80309-374-9 / 1803093749 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80309-374-1 / 9781803093741 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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