Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt's History and Obstinacy is a groundbreaking archaeology of the labor power that has been cultivated in the human body over the last two thousand years. First published in German in 1981 and never before translated into English, this epochal collaboration between Kluge and Negt has now been edited, expanded, and updated by the authors in response to global developments of the last decade to create an entirely new analysis of "the capitalism within us."