Bibliography of Antonio Negri’s Works in English Books

"Labor, which has become more intelligent through abstraction, has already torn reason away from capital. The ontology of living labor is an ontology of liberation" - Antonio Negri

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Bibliography of Antonio Negri's Works in English Books
1. Revolution Retrieved: Selected Writings on Marx, Keynes, Capitalist Crisis and New Social Subjects 1967-1983 (London: Red Notes, 1988). Contains the following essays (date of original Italian publication in parentheses):

"Keynes and the Capitalist Theory of the State Post-1929" (1968), pp.5-42.
"Marx on Cycle and Crisis" (1968), pp.43-90.
"Crisis of the Planner-State: Communism and Revolutionary Organization" (1974), pp.91-148.
"Marx Beyond Marx: Working Notebooks on the Grundrisse" (1979), pp.149-176.
"Crisis of the Crisis-State" (1980), pp.177-197.
"Archaeology and Project: The Mass Worker and the Social Worker" (1982), pp.199-228.
"Do You Remember Revolution?" (1983), pp.229-243.
Appendices on Negri's incarceration, pp.245-268.

2. Capitalist Domination and Working-Class Sabotage in Working-Class Autonomy and the Crisis (London: Red Notes/CSE, 1979), pp.93-137. Translated by Committee April 7. Originally published in Italian in 1978.

3. Marx Beyond Marx: Lessons on the Grundrisse (South Hadley, MA: Bergin & Garvey, 1984). Translated by Harry Cleaver, Michael Ryan and Maurizio Viano. Reprinted, with a revised bibliography, in 1991 by Autonomedia (Brooklyn, NY). Originally published in Italian in 1979.

4. The Savage Anomaly: The Power of Spinoza's Metaphysics and Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991). Translated by Michael Hardt. Originally published in Italian in 1981.

5. Communists Like Us: New Spaces of Liberty, New Lines of Alliance [written in collaboration with Felix Guattari] (New York: Semiotext(e), 1990). Translated by Michael Ryan and Jared Becker. Originally published in French in 1985.

6. The Politics of Subversion: A Manifesto for the 21st Century (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1989). Translated by James Newell. Originally published in French in 1986.

7. Labor of Dionysus: A Critique of the State-Form [written in collaboration with Michael Hardt] (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994). Translated by Michael Hardt. Consists of revisions of essays written between the 1960s and 1990s, as well as new material.

8. Constituent Power (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming). Translated by Maurizia Boscagli.

Essays
1. Working-Class Autonomy and the Crisis (London: Red Notes/CSE, 1979) contains the following short texts, translated by Committee April 7 (date of original Italian publication in parentheses):

"Reformism and Restructuration: Terrorism of the State-as-Factory Command" (1973), pp.33-37.
"Note on the 'Social' Worker" (1979), pp.37-38.
"Theses on the Crisis" (1974), pp.39-54.
"One Step Forward, Two Steps Back--The End of the Groups" (1973), pp.55-59.
"The Workers' Party of Mirafiori" (1973), pp.61-65.

2. "Is There a Marxist Doctrine of the State? A Reply by Antonio Negri" in Norberto Bobbio, Which Socialism? (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987), pp.121-138. Translated by Roger Griffin. Originally published in Italian in 1976.

3. "Memorial from Prison," "I, Toni Negri" (interview with Eugenio Scalfari) and "J'Accuse" in Semiotext(e) III:3 (1980), Italy: Autonomia/Post-Political Politics, pp.196-200, 254-261 and 292-296. Translated by Committee April 7, Peter Caravetta and Vincenzo Buonocore. Originally published in Italian in 1979.

4. "Foreword" to Harvie Ferguson, Essays in Experimental Psychology (London: Macmillan, 1983), pp.ix-xiv. Translated by Gianfranco Poggi.

5. "Reliqua Desiderantur: A Conjecture for a Definition of the Concept of Democracy in the Final Spinoza" in Warren Montag & Ted Stolze, eds., The New Spinoza (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), pp.218-246. Translated by Ted Stolze. Originally published in French in 1985.

6. "Interview with Toni Negri" (by Alice Jardine and Brian Massumi) in Copyright 1 (fall 1987), pp.74-89.

7. Review of Gabriel Albiac's La sinagoga vacia: Un estudio de las fuentes marranas del espinosismo (Madrid: Libros Hiperiレn, 1987) in Studia Spinozana 4 (1988), pp.423-426. Translated by Michael Hardt.

8. "Between Infinity and Community: Notes on Materialism in Spinoza and Leopardi" in Studia Spinozana 5 (1989), pp.151-176. Translated by Michael Hardt.

9. "Review of Norberto Bobbio, Future of Democracy and Which Socialism?" in Capital & Class 37 (spring 1989), pp.156-161. Translated by D. Schecter.

10. "Interpretation of the Class Situation Today: Methodological Aspects" in W. Bonefeld, R. Gunn and K. Psychopedis, eds., Open Marxism volume II: Theory and Practice (London: Pluto Press, 1992), pp.69-105. Translated by Michael Hardt. Also published as "Twenty Theses on Marx: Interpretation of the Class Situation Today" in Saree Makdisi, Cesare Casarino & Rebecca Karl, eds., Marxism Beyond Marxism (New York: Routledge, 1996), pp.149-180.

11. "Spinoza's Anti-Modernity" in Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 18: 2 (1995), pp.1-15. Translated by Charles T. Wolfe. Originally published in French in 1991.

12. "On Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus" in Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 18: 1 (1995), pp.93-109. Translated by Charles T. Wolfe. Originally published in French in 1992.

13. "Notes on the Evolution of the Thought of the Later Althusser" in Antonio Callari and David F. Ruccio, eds., Postmodern Materialism and the Future of Marxist Theory: Essays in the Althusserian Tradition (Hanover, NH: Wesleyan University Press, 1996), pp.51-68. Translated by Olga Vasile. Originally published in French in 1993.

14. "Constituent Republic" in Paolo Virno & Michael Hardt, eds., Radical Thought in Italy: A Potential Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), pp.213-221. Translated by Ed Emory. Originally published in French in 1993.

15. "The Physiology of Counter-Power: When Socialism is Impossible and Communism So Near" in Michael Ryan & Avery Goodman, eds., Body Politics: Disease, Desire and the Family (Boulder: Westview Press, 1994), pp.229-240. Translated by Michael Hardt.

16. "Italy, Exile Country" in Beverly Allen & Mary Russo, ed., Revisioning Italy (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997), pp.43-51. Translated by L. Scott Eagleburger & Beverly Allen.

17. Interview with Barkus and Zahedi (undated and unpublished typescript). Translated by Peter Paradiso. Available from the Texas Archive of Autonomist Marxism.

18. "What Can the State Still Do?" in Polygraph 10 (1998) pp. ?? Trans. ??

Secondary Material in English
on Negri’s Intellectual/Activist Work and Imprisonment
Beasley-Murray, Jon. "Ethics as Post-Political Politics" in Research and Society 7 (1994), p. 5-26.

Deleuze, Gilles. "Appeal for the formation of an international commission to inquire about the Italian judiciary situation and the situation in the Italian jails" (with Jean-Pierre Faye, Felix Guattari, etc.). Circulated in January 1981 but never published; available from the Texas Archive of Autonomist Marxism.

__________. "Control and Becoming" (interview with Toni Negri) in Deleuze, Negotiations 1972-1990 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995), pp.169-176.

__________. "Open Letter to Negri’s Judges" in Semiotext(e): Italy: Autonomia/Post-Political Politics 3:3 (1980), pp.182-184. Translated by Committee April 7.

Hardt, Michael. "The Art of Organization: Foundations of a Political Ontology in Gilles Deleuze and Antonio Negri." Doctoral dissertation, University of Washington, 1990.

__________. Review of Negri’s Revolution Retrieved in Rethinking Marxism 3:2 (summer 1990), pp.173-181.

__________. "Toni Negri’s Practical Philosophy" in Michael Ryan & Avery Goodman, eds., Body Politics: Disease, Desire and the Family (Boulder: Westview Press, 1994), pp.225-228.

Katsiaficas, George. The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life (Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1997).

Landy, Marcia. "Gramsci Beyond Gramsci: The Writings of Toni Negri" in boundary 2 summer 1994, pp.63-97.

Lombardo, Patrizia. "Introduction: The Philosophy of the City" in Massimo Cacciari, Architecture and Nihilism: On the Philosophy of Modern Architecture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993), pp.ix-lviii. Translated by Stephen Sartarelli.

Lotringer, Sylvere, & Christian Marazzi, eds. Semiotext(e) III:3 (1980), Italy: Autonomia/Post-Political Politics.

Lumley, Robert. Review of Working Class Autonomy and the Crisis in Capital & Class 12 (winter 1980-81), pp.123-135.

__________. States of Emergency: Cultures of Revolt in Italy from 1968 to 1978 (New York: Verso, 1990).

Massumi, Brian. "Harbinger or Hiccup? Autonomy in Exile: An Introduction to Toni Negri" in Copyright 1 (fall 1987), pp.64-73.

May, Todd. The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism (University Park: Penn State University Press, 1994).

Murphy, Timothy S. "Herculean Tasks, Dionysian Labor: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri on the Contemporary State-Form" in Angelaki 1:3, Reconsidering the Political (1994), pp.51-55.

__________. Review of Communists Like Us in The Jacaranda Review VI:1-2 (winter-spring 1992), pp.164-166.

Portelli, Alessandro. "Oral Testimony, the Law and the Making of History: the ‘April 7’ Murder Trial" in History Workshop: a journal of socialist and feminist historians 20 (autumn 1985), pp.5-35.

Ruggiero, Vincenzo. "Sentenced to normality: The Italian political refugees in Paris" in Crime, Law and Social Change 19 (1993), pp.33-50.

Ryan, Michael. Marxism and Deconstruction: A Critical Articulation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982).

__________. "The Theory of Autonomy" in Politics and Culture: Working Hypotheses for a Post-Revolutionary Society (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), pp.46-61.

Surin, Kenneth. "'The Continued Relevance of Marxism' as a Question: Some Propositions" in Saree Makdisi, Cesare Casarino & Rebecca Karl, eds., Marxism Beyond Marxism (New York: Routledge, 1996), pp.181-213.

Walther, Manfred. "Negri on Spinoza's Political and Legal Philosophy" in Edwin Curley & Pierre-Francois Moreau, eds., Spinoza: Issues and Directions (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990), pp.286-97.

Weeks, Kathi. "Subject for a Feminist Standpoint" in Saree Makdisi, Cesare Casarino & Rebecca Karl, eds., Marxism Beyond Marxism (New York: Routledge, 1996), pp.89-118.

Witheford, Nick. "Autonomist Marxism and the Information Society" in Capital & Class 52 (spring 1994), pp.85-125.

Wright, Stephen. "Negri's Class Analysis: Italian Autonomist Theory in the Seventies" in Reconstruction 8 (Winter/Spring 1996).

Note: Except where indicated, almost all these texts should be available at larger university libraries; recent books will be available through some mainstream bookstores (like Amazon.com on the Net) and many socialist/alternative/academic bookstores (like the Seminary Co-op in Chicago, City Lights in San Francisco and Midnight Special in Santa Monica).

"Labor, which has become more intelligent through abstraction, has already torn reason away from capital. The ontology of living labor is an ontology of liberation" - Antonio Negri

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