Empire
The New World Order
by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt

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Auteur(s)

Antonio Negri, Michael Hardt

Uitgever

Cambridge (MA.) ; London : Harvard University, 2001

Omvang

478 p., 23 cm.

ISBN

0674006712

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Empire is a book on globalization and geopolitics by Post Marxist thinkers Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. The main thesis of the book is that in the globalization era a new form of capitalist sovereignty is emerging, which Hardt and Negri call ‘Empire’. Hardt and Negri elaborate a variety of ideas surrounding constitutions, global war, and class. Hence, the Empire is constituted by a monarchy (the United States and the G8, and international organizations such as NATO, the International Monetary Fund or the World Trade Organization), an oligarchy (the multinational corporations and other nation-states) and a democracy (the various non-government organizations and the United Nations). Part of the book's analysis deals with ‘imagin[ing] resistance, but "the point of Empire is that it, too, is "total" and that resistance to it can only take the form of negation - "the will to be against".[-]The Empire is total, but economic inequality persists, and as all identities are wiped out and replaced with a universal one, the identity of the poor persists.”

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Trefwoorden

(in)equity , politics , justice

Locatie in de bibliotheek

Kast 11 - 5: Kritiek op het Neoliberalisme

Opmerkingen

Includes notes, index