Böcker av Paolo Virno

This book places two key notions up against each other to imagine a new way of conceptualizing historical time. How do the experience of deja vu and the idea 'End of History' relate to one another? Through thinkers like Bergson, Kojeve and Nietzsc...

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As speaking animals, we continuously make use of an unassuming grammatical particle, without suspecting that what is at work in its inconspicuousness is a powerful apparatus, which orchestrates language, signification, and the world at large. What...

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Virno's meditation on speech as an intrinsically political practice mediating between biological invariants and changing historical determinations. Originally published in Italian in 2002, When the Word Becomes Flesh provides a compelling contribu...

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Multitudens grammatik är den italienske filosofen Paolo Virnos internationellt mest kända bok. Denna tunna skrift har använts av och påverkat alltifrån samhällsvetare och ekonomer till aktivister och konstnärer. Multitudens grammatik handlar om va...

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The first English translation of the book that established Paolo Virno as one of the most influential Italian thinkers of his generation. With the 1986 publication of this book in Italy, Paolo Virno established himself as one of the most influenti...

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Over the past several decades, Italian revolutionary politics has offered a model for new forms of political thinking. Radical Thought in Italy continues that tradition by providing an original view of the potential for a radical democratic politi...

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Drawing from philosophy of language, political economics and ethics, Virno argues that the category of multitude, elaborated by Spinoza, is a far better tool to analyse contemporary issues than the Hobbesian concept of people, favoured by classica...

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The influential Italian thinker offers three essays in the political philosophy of language. Multitude between Innovation and Negation by Paolo Virno translated by James Cascaito. The publication of Paolo Virno's first book in English, Grammar of ...

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This book places two key notions up against each other to imagine a new way of conceptualizing historical time. How do the experience of deja vu and the idea 'End of History' relate to one another? Through thinkers like Bergson, Kojeve and Nietzsc...

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Déjà vu, which doubles and confuses our experience of time, is a psychological phenomenon with peculiar relevance to our contemporary historical circumstances. From this starting point, the acclaimed Italian philosopher Paolo Virno e...

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Die Grammatik der Multitude bezieht sich auf die spinozistischen Figur der multitudo. Virno beschreibt die Verdrängung dieses Begriffs durch den des »Volks« im 17. Jahrhundert. Die multitudo wurde im Laufe dieser Entwicklung immer mehr zum Synonym...

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Ausgangspunkt ist die These, dass der Begriff der »Multitude«, ganz im Gegensatz zu dem sowohl im wissenschaftlichen wie im politischen Diskurs etablierten Begriff »Volk«, ein unverzichtbares Werkzeug darstellt, um heute über das Politische, ...

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Bei der Textauswahl für diese Anthologie lag der Fokus darauf, die gesamte Breite der theoretischen Reflexion abzubilden und ihre heterogenen Stimmen zu Wort kommen zu lassen. Allen Texten ist eine kurze Einleitung vorangestellt, die sie im Denken...

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