Teoria e prassi, dialettica e soggettività. La Scuola di Francoforte nel pensiero politico di Antonio Negri.

This essay deals with Antonio Negri’s interpretation of the Frankfurt School. The first paragraph is dedicated to Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment. According to Negri, the two authors’ analysis of the “objective totality of the domain” ends up in not considering any subject. However, without the subject, there is no praxis, and without praxis no politics is possible. This framework is confirmed in the second paragraph, which deals with Negri’s interpretation of Herbert Marcuse. The latter, according to Negri, represents a first way out of the impasse developed in Adorno and Horkheimer’s theory. That is, in Marcuse Negri finds a thought able to move on from the dialectic to the subjectivity, and thus able to move on from the pars destruens of the critical theory to the pars costruens of political praxis. Finally, Negri finds in Hans-Jürgen Krahl’s internal criticism (discussed in the third paragraph) the definitive break with the Frankfurt School’s aporias. As stressed in the conclusion, according to Negri, Marcuse and Krahl represent a way out of the ‘impolitical dialectic’ of the Frankfurt School and its inability to grasp the link between theory, political praxis and subjectivity.