Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

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Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
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Author Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
LanguageEnglish
Subject Political science
Marxism
Globalization
Philosophy
Postmodernism
Publisher Penguin Books
Publication date
2004
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages448 pp.
ISBN 1-59420-024-6
OCLC 54487542
321.8 22
LC Class JC423 .H364 2004
Preceded by Empire  
Followed by Commonwealth  

Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire is a book by autonomous Marxist philosophers Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt that was published in 2004. It is the second installment of a "trilogy", also comprising Empire (2000) and Commonwealth (2009).

Contents

Summary

Multitude is divided into three sections: "War," which addresses the current "global civil war"; [1] "Multitude," which elucidates the "multitude" as an "active social subject, which acts on the basis of what the singularities share in common"; [1] and, "Democracy," which critiques traditional forms of political representation and gestures toward alternatives.

Multitude addresses these issues and elaborates on the assertion, in the Preface to Empire, that:

"The creative forces of the multitude that sustain Empire are also capable of autonomously constructing a counter-Empire, an alternative political organization of global flows and exchanges." [2]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire. Penguin Books. 2009. Pg. 4. Pg. 100.
  2. ↑ Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt. Empire. Harvard University Press. 2000. Pg 15.

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