The Demon of Politics. Volume II: 1980–2015

Volume II: 1985–2023
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-12014-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 620 g

Reihe: Marx and Marxisms

Mario Tronti is considered one of the most important Italian Marxist philosophers of our time, as well as one of the most influential European political theorists of the post-war period. Largely untranslated and hence unknown in the anglophone world, this is the second volume of a two-volume translation, The Demon of Politics, presenting an invaluable picture of Tronti’s political life and intellectual activity through a selection of his most relevant writings.

Volume II paints a fascinating picture of Tronti’s work in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, through his engagement with the traditions of political realism, ‘negative thinking’, and political theology. Essays herein also tackle the legacy of the 20th century from the angle of an intense reflection on the relations between history and politics. An introduction written by the editors contextualises Tronti’s writings during the second part of his career, while also providing the biographical and political details necessary to understand the evolution of his thought in the later years. Footnotes throughout the volume provide valuable precisions and elements of contextualisation throughout the whole volume.

The volumes of The Demon of Politics offer the most comprehensive edition of Tronti’s works available to students and scholars.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Filippini, Michele

Mascat, Jamila M.H.

Cavalleri, Matteo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction to Volume II. Part I: Realism and Transcendence (1985–1998) 1. For Another Political Dictionary: 1987 2. Über das Geistige in der Politik: 1992 3. Sara’s Laugh: 1992 4. Politics is Prophecy: 1996 5. Politics, History, Twentieth Century: 1998 6. Prince and Utopia: 1998 7. Karl und Carl: 1998 Part II: Thinking the 20th Century (1999–2023) 8. Politics and Destiny: 2001 9. The Legacy of What Was: 2005 10. For the Critique of Political Democracy: 2005 11. The Spirit that Disorders the World: 16 November 2006 12. Making Society with Politics: 2008 13. Walter Benjamin, Theological-Political Fragment: 2010 14. A Message from the Emperor: 2015 15. The Demon of Politics and the Angel of History: 2019 16. Weber and Workers: 2021 17. The Untimely ‘What is to be Done’: 2023

Über Autor(innen)

Mario Tronti was a philosopher and politician. In the 1960s he was among the founders of operaismo and later he played a leading role in the Italian Communist Party. He had been a newspaper editor, university professor, president of the Centro per la Riforma dello Stato, and senator of the Italian Republic. He is the author of Workers and Capital and many other books in Italian.

Michele Filippini is Associate Professor in History of Political Thought at the University of Bologna, Italy. His research interests include the history of Marxism and post-Marxism (Gramsci, workerism, Laclau), the early modern political thought (Machiavelli, Hobbes), mass society in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the forms of political legitimation and political power.

Jamila M.H. Mascat is Assistant Professor of Gender and Postcolonial Studies at the Graduate Gender Programme and a research affiliate at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry (ICON) at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Her transdisciplinary research works across the fields of Political Philosophy (German Idealism and Marxism in particular), Postcolonial Studies, Feminist Theories, and Critical Race Theories. Her current research interests focus, on the one hand, on theories of partisanship and political engagement and, on the other hand, on theories of postcolonial justice, and postcolonial reparations.

Matteo Cavalleri is Junior Assistant Professor of Moral Philosphy in the Department of Philosophical, Pedagogical and Social Sciences at the University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. He has also held teaching positions at the University of Bologna, Italy. In 2015 he won the Vittorio Sainati Prize. His research interests are developed at the intersection of theoretical analysis and political-historical investigation, with particular reference to the work of G.W.F. Hegel and the theme of freedom; the relationship between philosophical anthropology and the historical dimension; the aesthetics and politics of memory and the dialogue between political thought, philosophy and literature.