Empire /
Hardt, Michael, 1960-
Empire / - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001. - xvii, 478 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-472) and index.
The political constitution of the present. World order -- Biopolitical production -- Alternatives within Empire -- Passages of sovereignty. Two Europes, two modernities -- Sovereignty of the nation-state -- The dialectics of colonial sovereignty -- Symptoms of passage -- Network power : U.S. sovereignty and the New Empire -- Imperial sovereignty -- Intermezzo : counter-empire -- Passages of production. The limits of Imperialism -- Disciplinary governability -- Resistance, crisis, transformation -- Postmodernization, or The informalization of production -- Mixed constitution -- Capitalist sovereignty, or Administering the global society of control -- The decline and fall of Empire -- Virtualities -- Generation and corruption -- The multitude against Empire. pt. 1. pt. 2. pt. 3. pt. 4.
This text identifies a radical shift in concepts that form the philosophical basis of modern politics: concepts such as sovereignty, nation and people. It links this transformation to cultural and economic changes in postmodern society.
0674006712 (pbk.) 9780674006713: £12.95 9780674006713 (pbk.) 0674251210 9780674251212
Imperialism.
Globalization.
325.3209045 / HAR
Empire / - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001. - xvii, 478 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-472) and index.
The political constitution of the present. World order -- Biopolitical production -- Alternatives within Empire -- Passages of sovereignty. Two Europes, two modernities -- Sovereignty of the nation-state -- The dialectics of colonial sovereignty -- Symptoms of passage -- Network power : U.S. sovereignty and the New Empire -- Imperial sovereignty -- Intermezzo : counter-empire -- Passages of production. The limits of Imperialism -- Disciplinary governability -- Resistance, crisis, transformation -- Postmodernization, or The informalization of production -- Mixed constitution -- Capitalist sovereignty, or Administering the global society of control -- The decline and fall of Empire -- Virtualities -- Generation and corruption -- The multitude against Empire. pt. 1. pt. 2. pt. 3. pt. 4.
This text identifies a radical shift in concepts that form the philosophical basis of modern politics: concepts such as sovereignty, nation and people. It links this transformation to cultural and economic changes in postmodern society.
0674006712 (pbk.) 9780674006713: £12.95 9780674006713 (pbk.) 0674251210 9780674251212
Imperialism.
Globalization.
325.3209045 / HAR