Asserting that 'Lenin was closer to Max's Weber's "Politics as Vocation'" than to the German working-class struggle', Italian philosopher and radical theorist of 1960s 'operaismo', Mario Tronti has engaged in a lifelong project of thinking 'the autonomy of the political'. These essays mark the conjunction of the English-language edition of Tronti's 1966 "Workers and Capital" with the centenary of Weber's famous 1919 lecture.
Introduction: Power, Ethics and Enmity in the Work of Mario Tronti
HOWARD CAYGILL
Part 1 MARIO TRONTI
1. Weber and Workers (2019)
MARIO TRONTI
2. The God and the Warrior (2015)
MARIO TRONTI
3. Political Hegel (1976)
MARIO TRONTI
4. Remarks on Terror and the Political
MARIO TRONTI
Part 2 VOCATIONS OF THE POLITICAL
5. The Autonomy of Means or Politics as a Vocation di parte
ELLETRA STIMILLI
6. Ira et studium, or, Tragedy as Vocation
ALBERTO TOSCANO
7. Warring Gods: Trontis Political-Theological Turn
ALEX MARTIN
8. Tronti, Weber and the Demonology of the Political
HOWARD CAYGILL
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Howard Caygill is a professor in the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University. His latest book is "Force and Understanding: Writings on Resistance and Philosophy" (2020).
