Empire and Beyond
Antonio Negri
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Description for Empire and Beyond
Paperback. An important new book by the author of the international bestseller Empire. Negri clarifies and elaborates the key themes and ideas that underpin his work in Empire and Multitude , including new political movements, the forms of order and resistance within Empire and the possibility of politics in our postmodern world. Translator(s): Emery, Ed. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 364.
Today, Empire no longer has an outside: it no longer tolerates realities external to itself. Hence every war cannot but be a civil war, an internal battle, a domestic strife. But if the enemy is always within, militarization is part and parcel of normalization and every war necessarily appears as a policing operation. And yet has the sun really set on the old materialist dream of transforming social conflict into the beginnings of liberation? In the cracks of Empire one can discern an emergent capacity to remould the world. The anti-Empire is represented by the multitude, the collection of impassioned ... Read more
Today, Empire no longer has an outside: it no longer tolerates realities external to itself. Hence every war cannot but be a civil war, an internal battle, a domestic strife. But if the enemy is always within, militarization is part and parcel of normalization and every war necessarily appears as a policing operation. And yet has the sun really set on the old materialist dream of transforming social conflict into the beginnings of liberation? In the cracks of Empire one can discern an emergent capacity to remould the world. The anti-Empire is represented by the multitude, the collection of impassioned ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745640488
SKU
V9780745640488
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About Antonio Negri
Antonio Negri was formerly Professor of State Theory at the the University of Padua.
Reviews for Empire and Beyond
"Empire and Beyond and Reflections on Empire offer accessible points of entry to Negri's project with Hardt, which build, in their cumulative effect, to a sophisticated reflection upon its key ideas and their evolution - one that rewards close reading, even among those already familiar with his work." Marx and Philosophy