Communism in Philosophy: Essays on Alain Badiou and Toni Negri
Jun 2025 · BRILL
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From the “red years” that followed the social explosion of May '68 into the first decades of the 21st century, Alain Badiou and Toni Negri have produced two imposing and consequential bodies of philosophical writing, while never abandoning their commitment to a militant politics of equality. The essays collected in this book tackle multiple dimensions of their work—from ontology to biopolitics, from art to violence, from the theory of capitalism to the challenge of counter-revolution. But all of them are also efforts to explore and answer a single question: What does it mean to be a communist in philosophy?
From the “red years” that followed the social explosion of May '68 into the first decades of the 21st century, Alain Badiou and Toni Negri have produced two imposing and consequential bodies of philosophical writing, while never abandoning their commitment to a militant politics of equality. The ...
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Alberto Toscano is the author of Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis (2023), Terms of Disorder: Keywords for an Interregnum (2023), Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (2017, 2nd ed) and co-editor of The SAGE Handbook of Marxism (2022).
Alberto Toscano is the author of Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis (2023), Terms of Disorder: Keywords for an Interregnum (2023), Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (2017, 2nd ed) and co-editor of The SAGE Handbook of Marxism (2022).
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