Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire - Hardcover

Negri, Antonio; Hardt, Michael

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9780241142400: Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241142407 ISBN 13: 9780241142400

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 2005

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With the positive spirit and intellectual depth that are the authors' hallmark, Multitude argues that some of the most troubling aspects of the new world order contain the seeds of radical global social transformation. The accelerating integration of economic, political and cultural powers in the world is actually a force for the good. No longer simply the silent, oppressed masses, the world's populations form a fluid and powerful network with the strength to bring about the most radical step in the liberation of humankind since the Industrial Revolution. This multitude, Hardt and Negri tell us, is the key to democracy on a global scale.

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Complex, ambitious, disquieting, and ultimately hopeful, Multitude is the work of a couple of writers and thinkers who dare to address the great issues of our time from a truly alternative perspective. The sequel to 2001's equally bold and demanding Empire continues in the vein of the earlier tome. Where Empire's central premise was that the time of nation-state power grabs was passing as a new global order made up of "a new form of sovereignty" consisting of corporations, global-wide institutions, and other command centers is in ascendancy, Multitude focuses on the masses within the empire, except that, where academics Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri are concerned, this body is defined by its diversity rather than its commonalities. The challenge for the multitude in this new era is "for the social multiplicity to manage to communicate and act in common while remaining internally different." Empire isn't breezy reading, but for those aren't afraid of diving into a knotty philosophical and political discourse of uncommon breadth, Multitude offers many rewards. --Steven Stolder, Amazon.com

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"This timely book brings together myriad loose strands of far left thinking with clarity, measured reasoning and humor." --Publishers Weekly, starred

"Impressive... a rare and exciting work of synthesis." --Booklist, starred review

"Brilliant." --The Village Voice

"An inspiring marriage of realism and idealism." --Naomi Klein, author of No Logo

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