Empire /
By: Hardt, Michael.
Contributor(s): Negri, Antonio.
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001Description: xvii, 478 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0674006712 (pbk.); 9780674006713:; 9780674006713 (pbk.); 0674251210; 9780674251212.Subject(s): Imperialism![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [415]-472) and index.
pt. 1. The political constitution of the present. World order -- Biopolitical production -- Alternatives within Empire -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. 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 -- pt. 4. The decline and fall of Empire -- Virtualities -- Generation and corruption -- The multitude against Empire.
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.