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Book SynopsisAn 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.
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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 PhilosophyTable of ContentsPREFACE.
PART ONE.
Empire and beyond.
THE EMPIRE AND BEYOND, APORIAS AND CONTRADICTIONS.
AN AXIOMATICS FOR EMPIRE.
CRUCIAL TRANSITIONS IN EMPIRE.
EMPIRE AND WAR.
TENDENCIES AND DRIVES TOWARDS THE RECOMPOSITION OF ARISTOCRACY IN EMPIRE.
UTOPIAS AND RESISTANCE IN EMPIRE.
EMPIRE AND CITIZENSHIP.
LIVING THE IMPERIAL TRANSITION – IN ORDER TO STRUGGLE.
RESISTANCE AND MULTITUDE.
THE MONSTROUS MULTITUDE.
MULTITUDO, UTOPIA STATION.
PEACE AND WAR.
ART AND CULTURE IN THE AGE OF EMPIRE AND THE TIME OF MULTITUDES.
MARX / IMPERO-IMPERIALISM.
PART TWO:.
Europe – Opportunities For Struggle.
EUROPE AND EMPIRE: ISSUES AND PROBLEMS.
EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES IN EMPIRE.
EUROPE BETWEEN UNIVERSALISM AND NATIONAL DIFFERENCES: A POSSIBLE EUROPE.
A THOUSAND EUROPEAN ISSUES.
NOTES ON LAYING THE BASIS FOR FOREIGN POLICY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION.
PART THREE.
Post-socialist politics.
SOCIAL ALTERNATIVES TO NEOLIBERALISM.
A POST-SOCIALIST POLITICS WITHIN EMPIRE.
THE NEW PHASE OF EMPIRE.
URBAN DEMOCRACY.
FOR A NEW WELFARE.
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PART FOUR.
Political philosophy in imperial post-modernity.
POST-MODERNITY AND LIBERTY.
THE COMMUNISM OF IMMANENCE.
BIO-POWER AND SUBJECTIVITY.
MULTITUDE AND BIO-POWER.
EMPIRE AND WAR.
REFORMING THE LEXICON OF POLITICS.
THE BIO-POLITICS OF GENERAL INTELLECT.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF “OLD EUROPE”.
THE ACTOR AND THE SPECTATOR: IMMATERIAL LABOUR, PUBLIC SERVICE, INTELLECTUAL COOPERATION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COMMON.
REAL TIME AND THE TIME OF EXPLOITATION.
A NEW FOUCAULT?.
POST-MODERNITY OR CONTEMPORANEITY?
