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"He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good."
- Confucius
(551 BC - 479 BC),
The Confucian Analects
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 478 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674251210
Release Date: Jan 10, 1996
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
Imperialism as we knew it may be no more, but Empire is alive and well. It is, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri demonstrate in this bold work, the new political order of globalization. It is easy to recognize the contemporary economic, cultural, and legal transformations taking place across the globe but difficult to understand them. Hardt and Negri contend that they should be seen in line with our historical understanding of Empire as a universal order that accepts no boundaries or limits. Their book shows how this emerging Empire is fundamentally different from the imperialism of European dominance and capitalist expansion in previous eras. Rather, today's Empire draws on elements of U.S. constitutionalism, with its tradition of hybrid identities and expanding frontiers.
Empire identifies a radical shift in concepts that form the philosophical basis of modern politics, concepts such as sovereignty, nation, and people. Hardt and Negri link this philosophical transformation to cultural and economic changes in postmodern society-to new forms of racism, new conceptions of identity and difference, new networks of communication and control, and new paths of migration. They also show how the power of transnational corporations and the increasing predominance of postindustrial forms of labor and production help to define the new imperial global order.
More than analysis, Empire is also an unabashedly utopian work of political philosophy, a new Communist Manifesto. Looking beyond the regimes of exploitation and control that characterize today's world order, it seeks an alternative political paradigm-the basis for a truly democratic global society. Michael Hardt is Assistant Professor in the Literature Program at Duke University. Antonio Negri is an independent researcher and writer and an inmate at Rebibbia Prison, Rome. He has been a Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Paris and a Professor of Political Science at the University of Padua.
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Full of interesting observations
-- A reviewer, a Student, February 26, 2002
The Alternative to Globalization?
-- David Spence, anti-globalization activist/student, November 13, 2001
Also Recommended: THE IMMORTALIST MANIFESTO by ELIXXIR
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
By way of Spinoza, Wittgenstein, Marx, the Vietnam War, and even Bill Gates, Empire offers an irresistible, iconoclastic analysis of the 'globalized' world. Revolutionary, even visionary, Empire identifies the imminent new power of the multitude to free themselves from capitalist bondage.
— (Leslie Marmon Silko, author of Almanac of the Dead) —Leslie Marmon Silko
Michael Hardt and Tony Negri have given us an original, suggestive and provocative assessment of the international economic and political moment we have entered. Abandoning many of the propositions of conventional marxism such as imperialism, the centrality of the national contexts of social struggle and a cardboard notion of the working class, the authors nonetheless show the salience of the marxist framework as a tool of explanation. This book is bound to stimulate a new debate about globalization and the possibilities for social transformation in the 21st century.
— (Stanley Aronowitz, author of False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness) —Stanley Aronowitz
An extraordinary book, with enormous intellectual depth and a keen sense of the history-making transformation that is beginning to take shape--a new system of rule Hardt and Negri name Empire imperialism.
— (Saskia Sassen, author of Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of Globalization) —Saskia Sassen
After reading Empire, one cannot escape the impression that if this book were not written, it would have to be invented. What Hardt and Negri offer is nothing less than a rewriting of The Communist Manifesto for our time: Empire conclusively demonstrates how global capitalism generates antagonisms that will finally explode its form. This book rings the death-bell not only for the complacent liberal advocates of the 'end of history,' but also for pseudo-radical Cultural Studies which avoid the full confrontation with today's capitalism.
— (Slavoj Zizek, The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Center of Political Ontology) —Slavoj Zizek
The new book by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, Empire, is an amazing tour de force. Written with communicative enthusiasm, extensive historical knowledge, systematic organization, it basically combines a kojevian notion of global market as post-history (in this sense akin to Fukuyama's eschatology) with a foucauldian and deleuzian notion of bio-politics (in this sense crossing the road of a Sloterdijk who also poses the question of a coming techniques of the production of the human species). But it clearly outbids its rivals in philosophical skill. And, above all, it reverses their grim prospects of political stagnation or the return to zoology. By identifying the new advances of technology and the division of labor that underlies the globalization of the market and the corresponding de-centered structure of sovereignty with a deep tructure of power located within the multitude's intellectual and affective corporeity, it seeks to identify the indestructible sources of resistance and constitution that frame our future. It claims to lay the foundations for a teleology of class struggles and militancy even more substantially "communist" than the classical Marxist one. This will no doubt trigger a lasting and passionate discussion among philosophers, political scientists and socialists. Whatever their conclusions, the benefits will be enormous for intelligence.
— (Etienne Balibar, author of Spinoza and Politics) —Etienne Balibar
Empire is a stunningly original attempt to come to grips with the cultural, political, and economic transformations of the contemporary world. While refusing to ignore history, Hardt and Negri question the adequacy of existing theoretical categories, and offer new concepts for approaching the practices and regimes of power of the emergent world order. Whether one agrees with it or not, it is an all too rare effort to engage with the most basic and pressing questions facing political intellectuals today.
— (Lawrence Grossberg, author of We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture) —Lawrence Grossberg
Empire is one of the most brilliant, erudite, and yet incisively political interpretations available to date of the phenomenon called 'globalization.' Engaging critically with postcolonial and postmodern theories, and mindful throughout of the plural histories of modernity and capitalism, Hardt and Negri rework Marxism to develop a vision of politics that is both original and timely. This very impressive book will be debated and discussed for a long time.
— (Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of Provincializing Europe —Dipesh Chakrabarty
| |  | | | PART 1: The Political Constitution of the Present
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1.1 World Order
1.2 Biopolitical Production
1.3 Alternatives within Empire PART 2: Passages of Sovereignty
2.1 Two Europes, Two Modernities
2.2 Sovereignty of the Nation-State
2.3 The Dialectics of Colonial Sovereignty
2.4 Symptoms of Passage
2.5 Network Power U.S. Sovereignty and the New Empire
2.6 Imperial Sovereignty INTERMEZZO: COUNTER-EMPIRE PART 3: Passages of Production
3.1 The Limits of Imperialism
3.2 Disciplinary Governability
3.3 Resistance, Crisis, Transformation
3.4 Postmodernization, or The Informatization of Production
3.5 Mixed Constitution
3.6 Capitalist Sovereignty, or Administering the Global Society of Control PART 4: The Decline and Fall of Empire
4.1 Virtualities
4.2 Generation and Corruption
4.3 The Multitude against Empire Notes
Index
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