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Over the years, few intellectuals have experienced as much admiration and hatred as Antonio Negri. His international best-selling book, Empire, a critical analysis of the new global economy coauthored with Michael Hardt, was hailed as a new manifesto for the 21st century, and turned Negri into a leading spokesperson for the international anti-globalization movement. Antonio Negri: A Revolt that Never Ends profiles the controversial life and times of this important moral and political philosopher, militant, prisoner, refugee, and so-called "enemy of the state." It traces his roots in the radical left-wing movements in Italy during the 60s and 70s, illustrated through incredible archival footage of strikes, factory occupations, terrorist actions, violent street confrontations, and government trials of dissidents. During these tumultuous decades Negri spent ten years in prison and fourteen years in Parisian exile, where he contributed to philosophical debates with authors such as Gilles Deleuze. The film features interviews with Negri (conducted following his April 2003 release from confinement), public speaking appearances, plus commentary from his coauthor Michael Hardt, and Italian and French colleagues. A Revolt That Never Ends explores this visionary theoretician's lifelong political struggle, now being expressed in works of contemporary relevance such as Empire and its sequels, Multitude and Commonwealth, which comprise a powerful intellectual project in protest of the new global order.

On the 6-8 March 2009 the UCD School of Philosophy (whose expertise in the area of continental philosophy was recently ranked as one of the top ten globally by 'The Philosophical Gourmet') hosted the International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry, at which Alasdair MacIntyre spoke "On Having Survived The Academic Moral Philosophy of the Twentieth Century".

MacIntyre's most famous book, After Virtue (1981), revealed the inconsistencies inherent in the various conflicting ethical systems born out of the Enlightenment, and which for the most part have shaped current social and political values. The common error, he argued in the book, was the failure to adequately ask the most basic of all questions. We ask what is it to be a good manager, teacher, or parent, but neglect to ask: what is it to be a good human being? MacIntyre encouraged his readers to rediscover with Aristotle the centrality of the virtues as concretely exemplifying the goals and practices of the good life.

Alasdair MacIntyre has written widely in philosophy since his first book, Marxism: An Interpretation, appeared in 1953. He is the author of over thirty books, and has made prominent contributions to the history of philosophy, moral philosophy, political theory, philosophy of the social sciences, and philosophy of religion. He has taught at Oxford University, Princeton University, Brandeis University, Boston University, Wellesley College, Vanderbilt University, Duke University, and the University of Notre Dame.

In April 2009 the Husserl-Archives Leuven organised a four-day conference on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Edmund Husserl's birth. Robert Sokolowski spoke on 'Husserl On First Philosophy'.