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).
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| Author | Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Political Science Marxism Globalization Philosophy Postmodernism |
| Publisher | Penguin Books |
Publication date | 2004 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
| Pages | 448 pp. |
| ISBN | 1-59420-024-6 |
| OCLC | 54487542 |
| 321.8 22 | |
| LC Class | JC423 .H364 2004 |
| Preceded by | Empire |
| Followed by | Commonwealth |
Summary
editMultitude 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
editFurther reading
edit- Welsh, John. (2016) The shadow: alter-visibility in an empire of the seen. Distinktion 17(1): 57-77. [1].
External links
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- Review of Multitude, by Eric Mason
- The village voice review, by John Giuffo
- A deconstructive reading of Multitude
- "The Collaborator and the Multitude: An Interview with Michael Hardt" Hardt talks about Multitude, the sequel to Empire. (2004)
- Timothy Rayner (2005). Refiguring the multitude: From exodus to the production of norms. Radical Philosophy 131.