Altermodernity: genealogies of communism in Hardt and Negri’s trilogy Cover Image

Alternowoczesność: genealogie komunizmu w trylogii Hardta i Negriego
Altermodernity: genealogies of communism in Hardt and Negri’s trilogy

Author(s): Mateusz Janik
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: communism; immanence; Kant; common; multitude; ontology; politics; Negri vs. Hardt; materialism; constitution

Summary/Abstract: The following essay attempts to present Negri’s and Hardt’s work in broad historical perspective as an effort to establish new model of politics, which surpasses the project of modernity, maintaining at the same time its critical potential. Hardt and Negri propose the ontologization of politics as an alternative for transcendental structure of mediation. By this gesture they reintroduce to the political discourse the notion of communism understood not as a kind of normative task, but as a process taking place in materially comprehended social relations.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 33-43
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish