Insurgencies: Constituent Power and the Modern State

Synopsis

New editionin the ten years since the initial publication of insurgencies, antonio negri's reputation as one of the world's 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 hardt's 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.