Italian radical philosopher Toni Negri dies in Paris

Italian radical philosopher Toni Negri dies in Paris

Radical left-wing Italian philosopher Toni Negri died in Paris Saturday, aged 90, his wife the philosopher Judith Revel told AFP.

The Italian philosopher and activist Toni Negri (Padua, 1933) died at the age of 90 in Paris. The news was reported by his wife, the French philosopher Judith Revel, and his daughter Anna, who recalled him with a post on Instagram. Professor of State Theory at the University of Padua, he was involved in the revolutionary struggle since the sixties of the last century, as a thinker and as an activist. He participated in different initiatives, suc…

Inspiring political struggles in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, his work also influenced the alterglobalist movement in the early 21st century.

He was one of the leading philosophers on the radical, extra-parliamentary left — and was politically active until recently: Italian intellectual Antonio Negri has now died at the age of 90.

Radical leftist intellectual Toni Negri dies aged 90 - General News

Radical leftist intellectual Toni Negri, a leading far-left ideologue of the 1970s, died in Paris on Friday evening aged 90. (ANSA)

A committed intellectual, the master thinker of the Italian extreme left died at the age of 90 on the night of 15 to 16 December.