The Twilight of Politics by Mario Tronti
A classic work of political theory by a major twentieth-century figure of the Italian Left.Italian political thinker Mario Tronti is most famous for being the author of Workers and Capital, which became the central theoretical formulation of Italian operaismo or workerism, a current of political thought emerging in the 1960s that revolutionized the institutional and extra-parliamentary Left in Italy and beyond. In The Twilight of Politics, written originally in 1998, Tronti argues that modern politics, which reached its apogee in the twentieth century, has ended.
Realism and Utopia, Tronti explains, were the foundational qualities of modern politics, which it always tried to clasp together. But behind this highwater mark of politics was a history over the longue durée, encompassing the wars of religion, Hobbes’ Leviathan, revolution, great individuals, and popular movements, as well as innovations such as the nation-state and the party-form. Historically, the modern period is also a coming together of the categories of the political and the laws of political economy. At the heart of this book is Tronti’s attempt to hold together a view of the course of political history with a critique of the “dictatorship of the present” to help us escape being “chained to the bars of an eternal present . . . which deprives us both of the freedom to look back and to see ahead.”
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Holderlins Madness
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Puzzles
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The Kingdom and the Garden
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The Body of Language
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The Human Voice
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Name and Image
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The Unrealizable
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Self-Portrait in the Studio
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As Cruel as Anyone Else
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The Unspeakable Girl
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Studiolo
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Fear Reverence Terror
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Literary Genres and Their Origins
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Orphism and Tragedy
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On Impotence
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Within the Sweet Noise of Life
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The Still Arrow
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Blinding Polyphemus
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The Labour of Spirit
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The Immemorial
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A Test of Powers
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Taste
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Nymphs
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The World Machine
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The World Saved by Kids
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Secret Germany
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Spartakus
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An Essay on Negation
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The Idea of World
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Primo Levi
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The Church and the Kingdom
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This Body That Inhabits Me
Mario Tronti is the author of Workers and Capital. An active member of the Italian Communist Party, he taught philosophy at the University of Siena, served as a member of the Italian Senate twice, and published several books and articles. He divides his time between Rome and Umbria. Matteo Mandarini is a senior lecturer in politics and organization at Queen Mary University of London. He is the translator of several books, including The Writer and the People and Hamletics.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781803093734 |
| ISBN 10 | 1803093730 |
| Title | The Twilight of Politics |
| Author | Mario Tronti |
| Series | The Italian List |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Seagull Books London Ltd |
| Year published | 2025-03-18 |
| Number of pages | 252 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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