Communism in Philosophy

Alberto Toscano is the author of Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis (2023), Terms of Disorder: Keywords for an Interregnum (2023), Fanaticism: On the Uses of an Idea (2017, 2nd ed) and co-editor of The SAGE Handbook of Marxism (2022).

• Introduction: The Communist DifferendPart 1 Alain Badiou, or, The Communist Separation1 Communism as Separation2 Marxism Expatriated3 From the State to the World4 Can Violence Be Thought?5 The Bourgeois and the Islamist, or, The Other Subjects of Politics1 Subjects of untruth2 Ambivalence of the bourgeoisie3 Justice and Terror, nihilists and renegades4 Struggles over subjective space5 The obscure subject of current affairs6 Conclusion6 Emblems and Cuts: Philosophy in and Against History7 Politics in Pre-Political Times8 A Spectre is Not Haunting Europe1 The desire for the state2 Imperium, or, the circle of the state3 Thinking communism outside the state9 Communism and the AbsolutePart 2 Toni Negri, or, The Communist Tendency10 Chronicles of Insurrection: Operaismo and the Subject of Antagonism1 Before Empire, behind the multitude2 Tendency and communism3 Tronti’s Copernican revolution4 Fantasy wears boots11 Factory, Territory, Metropolis, Empire12 Always Already Only Now: Limits of the Biopolitical1 Questions of method2 Mediation is dead, long live biopolitics3 The biopolitical subject of living labour4 From biopolitics to class struggle and back again5 Periodisation and production6 Vitalism and social ontology13 Art Against Empire14 The Sensuous Religion of the Multitude: Aesthetics and Abstraction15 Prison, Revolution and Counter-Revolution16 A Communist Life: Toni Negri (1933–2023)Note on TextsBibliographyIndex