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Paolo Virno

Born

in Naples, Italy

May 14, 1952

Died

November 07, 2025

Genre

Philosophy

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Paolo Virno (1952–2025) was an Italian philosopher, semiologist and a figurehead for the Italian Marxist movement. Implicated in belonging to illegal social movements during the 1960s and 1970s, Virno was arrested and jailed in 1979, accused of belonging to the Red Brigades. He spent several years in prison before finally being acquitted, after which he organized the publication Luogo Comune (Italian for "commonplace") in order to vocalize the political ideas he developed during his imprisonment. At the time of his death, Virno was teaching philosophy at the University of Rome. ...more

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	A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life (Semiotext by Paolo Virno, Isabella Bertoletti (Translator), James Cascaito (Translator) 4.03 avg rating — 301 ratings — published 2001 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deja Vu and the End of History 3.54 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 1999 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Radical Thought in Italy: A Potential Politics by Paolo Virno (Editor), Michael Hardt (Editor), Cesare Casarino (Contributor) 4.02 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Multitude between Innovation and Negation (Semiotext by Paolo Virno, James Cascaito (Translator) 3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When The Word Becomes Flesh by Paolo Virno, Giuseppina Mecchia (Translator) 3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Essay on Negation: For a Linguistic Anthropology by Paolo Virno, Lorenzo Chiesa (Translator) 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Motto di spirito e azione innovativa: Per una logica del cambiamento 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Virtuosismo y revolución: La acción política en la era del desencanto 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Avere: Sulla natura dell’animale loquace 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Idea of World: Public Intellect and Use of Life by Paolo Virno, Lorenzo Chiesa (Translation) 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Kaçış, çıkış eyleminden daha etkin olan hiçbir şey yoktur. Terk, mücadelenin içinde gerçekleştiği şartları değiştirilemez bir ufuk olarak varsaymaktan ziyade, bu şartları dönüştürür, problem karşısında sunulan seçeneklerden birini ya da diğerini yeğlemek yerine, bu problemin içinde ortaya çıktığı bağlamı değiştirir. Kısacası çıkış, oyunun kurallarını değiştiren ve rakibin dengesini bozan zapt edilemez keşiften oluşur.”
― Paolo Virno, A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life (Semiotext

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“Hiç kimse, başkalarının mevcudiyeti ile ilişkisi, yani kendi iletişim yetisi, bir dile sahip oluşu ücretli emeğe indirgenmiş olanlar kadar yoksul değildir.”
― Paolo Virno, A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life (Semiotext

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“Let us repeat. The memory of the present is juxtaposed to the perception of the present.”
― Paolo Virno, Deja Vu and the End of History

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