> I've heard that Negri has become a big Catholic. Does anyone have info?
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> Katha
No, he hasn't become a big catholic. It is one the many misunderstandings in which he falls (knowingly, at least some times). It started out with a brief sentence in one of his recent books ("Exile") : "The militants of to-day should be like San Francis to fully understand the nature of postmodern exploitation". He actally meant that militants have to be entirely "avialable". "Franciscan", but in a lay sense. More recently he wrote an article for an Italian Catholic magazine confessing that, in few moments of his life (moments of danger and difficulties), he've found himself reciting the Ave Maria. But he confirms publicly that he's still "totally lay".
It seems strange (thinking of the several "boutades" of his), but, for whom has had the privilege of knowing him for a long time, Toni Negri is probrably one the most consistent intellectual figures of the past 40 years.
ciao, alessandro