Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of EmpireIn their international bestseller Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri presented a grand unified vision of a world in which the old forms of imperialism are no longer effective. But what of Empire in an age of “American empire”? Has fear become our permanent condition and democracy an impossible dream? Such pessimism is profoundly mistaken, the authors argue. Empire, by interconnecting more areas of life, is actually creating the possibility for a new kind of democracy, allowing different groups to form a multitude, with the power to forge a democratic alternative to the present world order.Exhilarating in its optimism and depth of insight, Multitude consolidates Hardt and Negri’s stature as two of the most important political philosophers at work in the world today. |
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... economic terms but more generally as social production—not only the production of material goods but also the ... economic” aspect, except that the separation of economics from other social domains quickly breaks down here. Insofar as ...
... economic terms but more generally as social production—not only the production of material goods but also the ... economic” aspect, except that the separation of economics from other social domains quickly breaks down here. Insofar as ...
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... economic sense but also touches on and produces all facets of social life, economic, cultural, and political. This biopolitical production and its expansion of the common is one strong pillar on which stands the possibility of global ...
... economic sense but also touches on and produces all facets of social life, economic, cultural, and political. This biopolitical production and its expansion of the common is one strong pillar on which stands the possibility of global ...
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... economic production because war has always been and perhaps has become increasingly tied to economic production. Many scholars emphasize that largescale industry has played a central role in modern military affairs—in terms of ...
... economic production because war has always been and perhaps has become increasingly tied to economic production. Many scholars emphasize that largescale industry has played a central role in modern military affairs—in terms of ...
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... economic production, we should be careful not to fall into the simplifications that often come under the label “military-industrial complex.” This term was created to name a confluence of interests in the imperialist phase of capitalist ...
... economic production, we should be careful not to fall into the simplifications that often come under the label “military-industrial complex.” This term was created to name a confluence of interests in the imperialist phase of capitalist ...
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