{"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","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-twilight-of-politics-by-mario-tronti-9781803093741","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}