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

Hardt, Michael; Negri, Antonio

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594200246 ISBN 13: 9781594200243

Publisher: Penguin Pr, 1900

Synopsis

The co-authors of Empire examine empire networks throughout history and in the present day, arguing that key issues within the new world order may enable significant social transformation and global democracy. 50,000 first printing.

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Review:

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

Review:

"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

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Pr
• Publication date: 1900
• ISBN 10: 1594200246
• ISBN 13: 9781594200243
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 427