{"title":"Mario Tronti","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMario Tronti\u003c\/strong\u003e offers profound reflections on the dynamics of power and social movements within the realm of \u003cem\u003ePolitics \u0026amp; Current Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e. His works, including titles like \u003cem\u003eThe Twilight of Politics\u003c\/em\u003e, engage critically with the shifting landscape of political thought and organisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders will find incisive analyses that challenge conventional perspectives, exploring the relationship between political action and historical change. Tronti’s writings invite a deeper understanding of how collective agency shapes political realities.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-twilight-of-politics-by-mario-tronti-9781803093741","title":"The Twilight of Politics","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA classic work of political theory by a major twentieth-century figure of the Italian Left.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eItalian political thinker Mario Tronti is most famous for being the author of \u003cem\u003eWorkers and Capital\u003c\/em\u003e, which became the central theoretical formulation of Italian \u003cem\u003eoperaismo\u003c\/em\u003e or workerism, a current of political thought emerging in the 1960s that revolutionised the institutional and extra-parliamentary Left in Italy and beyond. In \u003cem\u003eThe Twilight of Politics\u003c\/em\u003e, written originally in 1998, Tronti argues that modern politics, which reached its apogee in the twentieth century, has ended.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRealism and Utopia, Tronti explains, were the foundational qualities of modern politics, which it always tried to clasp together. But behind this high-water mark of politics was a history over the longue durée, encompassing the wars of religion, Hobbes' \u003cem\u003eLeviathan\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47433076113644,"sku":"9781803093741","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781803093741.jpg?v=1774765630"},{"product_id":"the-weapon-of-organization-by-mario-tronti-9781942173229","title":"The Weapon of Organization","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMario Tronti was the principal theorist of the radical political movement of the 1960s known in Italy as \u003cem\u003eoperaismo\u003c\/em\u003e and in the Anglophone world as Italian workerism, a current which went on to inform the development of autonomist Marxism. His \"Copernican revolution\"—the proposal that working class struggles against exploitation propel capitalist development, which can only be understood as a reaction that seeks to harness this antagonism—has inspired dissident leftists around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTronti's influence as a theorist thus already reaches far beyond Italy to activists and writers working in different sectors on different problems historically and geographically. While his imposing and acclaimed \u003cem\u003eWorkers and Capital\u003c\/em\u003e has only recently appeared in English translation, Tronti has influenced many of the most creative social and political theorists of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAntonio Negri and Michael Hardt have long acknowledged the influence of Tronti on their thinking, drawing especially on his inversion of strategy and tactics in their influential collaborations. Tronti's work in the 1960s also furnished important building blocks for a Marxist feminist critique of unwaged labour—as developed by Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Silvia Federici, and many others working on social reproduction theory—as Tronti showed how capitalist control extends beyond the factory to all of society. Fred Moten and Stefano Harney have echoed Tronti's calls for a radical antagonism \"within and against\" institutions and the state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Weapon of Organization\u003c\/em\u003e is a crucial introduction to Tronti, presenting a variety of never-before-translated texts—personal letters, public talks, published articles. With an incisive and provocative introduction that situates Tronti and highlights his relevance to contemporary political struggle, Anastasi translates and restores key writing from the birth of Italian \u003cem\u003eoperaismo\u003c\/em\u003e—days of street fighting and theorizing for a renewed age of revolution. Tronti's goal, Anastasi writes, was not to become a revered thinker but to participate in the destruction of capitalist society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47608191647980,"sku":"9781942173229","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/924eae6c6022b5b06c86d4a3bd06583c.jpg?v=1778202485"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/mario-tronti.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}