Pipeline
Subtitle: letters from prison
By: Antonio Negri ; translated by Ed Emery
Contributors: Emery, Ed
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780745655642; 9780745655659
Subjects: Correspondence; Philosophers; Politicians; Biography
Work titles: Pipe-line
Description: Four men in a cell in Rebibbia prison, Rome, awaiting trial on serious charges of subversion. One of them, the political thinker Antonio Negri, spends his days writing. Among his writings are twenty letters addressed to a young friend in France letters in which Negri reflects on his own personal development as a philosopher, theorist and political activist and analyses the events, activities and movements in which he has been involved. The letters recount an existential journey that links a rigorous philosophical education with a powerful political passion, set against the historical backdrop of postwar Italy. Crucially, Negri recalls the pivotal moment in 1978 when the former prime minister of Italy, Aldo Moro, was kidnapped and killed by the Red Brigades, and how the institutions then pinned that killing onto him and his associates.
Notes: "First published in Italy by Giulio Einaudi in 1983, under the title: Pipe-line: Lettere da Rebibbia."--Page 1.

Includes bibliographical references and index.