Pour Toni Negri (1933-2023). Notes pour une biographie de son œuvre

This article presents the bio-bibliographical trajectory of Antonio Negri. It starts with his work on Kant’s and Hegel’s philosophy of law in the intellectual atmosphere of the University of Padua at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, preluding his research on the “material constitution” in the 1960s and his intervention in debates on the Marxist theory of the state in the following decade, and looks at his involvement in operaism and its long-term effects, his acquaintance with Spinoza and his early “Parisian years”, his reflections stimulated over the last three decades by the new local and global dynamics of counter-systemic movements, the conflictualisation of capitalist globalisation and the invention of alternative spaces of collective liberation, as well as his most recent concerns about the “fascist resurgence”. In the course of an existence devoted, in theory and practice, to constituent praxis that constantly reopens the possibility of revolution, we see the unfailing vigilance with regard to the power of autonomy of the struggles that constantly rearticulate, in each new conjuncture, the question of political strategy and the ontological commitment of the desire for communism.