Das negative Potential - by Johannes Agnoli (2004)

This is a documentary with the famous the Italo-German Marxist philosopher and anarchist Johannes Agnoli.
J. Agnoli (1925-2003) - German Italian origin. In Italy, joined the Nazi Party, seeing it as a left movement against the bourgeoisie. In 1943 he went to the front of the Volunteer Army of the Wehrmacht, fought in Yugoslavia against the guerrillas. In 1945 he was captured. In 1948 he returned to Germany, studying philosophy, defended his thesis on the philosophy of law Dzh.Viko, begins to teach at the University of Berlin. In 1967 he co-authored with P. Brückner released book "The Transformation of Democracy, which was called the" bible "of the German youth movement in 1968 Agnoli actively involved in the strikes of workers, speaking at conferences with the ideas of the synthesis of Marxism and anarchism. Altogether, they were released about 20 books on social theory and practice of the twentieth century. Since 1991 Agnoli led solitary life in Lucca (Italy).
In the film, which was built in the form of conversations with J. Agnoli, analyzes the key events in the history of the second half of the twentieth century, discusses the concept of freedom of Fichte and Hegel, we introduce an important idea for Agnoli negative potential.


production land: German
Run time: ~70 min