The essential guide to recent Italian political and social theory.

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 politics today that speaks not only to the Italian situation but also to a broadly international context.

First, the essays settle accounts with the culture of cynicism, opportunism, and fear that has come to permeate the Left. They then proceed to analyze the new difficulties and possibilities opened by current economic conditions and the crisis of the welfare state. Finally, the authors propose a series of new concepts that are helpful in rethinking revolution for our times.

Contributors: Giorgio Agamben（吉奧喬·阿甘本）, Massimo De Carolis, Alisa Del Re, Augusto Illuminati, Maurizio Lazzarato, Antonio Negri, Franco Piperno, Marco Revelli, Rossana Rossanda, Carlo Vercellone, Adelino Zanini. @信息源自：美國明尼蘇達州大學齣版社。

Paolo Virno 介紹：略。

Michael Hardt is professor of literature and romance studies at Duke University. He is the author of Gilles Deleuze and Labor of Dionysus, translator of The Savage Anomaly by Antonio Negri, and co-translator of Language and Death by Giorgio Agamben.