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"Everyone seems
to
agree
that
our
economic system
is
bro
ken,
yet the
debate about alternatives remains oppressivelynarrow. Hardt and Negri explode this claustrophobic
de-
bate,taking readers
to the
deepest roots
of our
currentcrisesand proposing radical, and deeply human, solutions.Therehas never been
a
better
time
for
this book."—Naomi
Klein,
author
of
The Shock Doctrine'Commonwealth,
last and richest
of the
Empire
trilogy,
is a
powerful
and
ambitious reappropriation
of the
whole tradi
tion
of
political theory
for the
Left. Clarifying Foucault'sambiguous notion
of
biopower, deepening
the
authors'own proposal
for the
notion
of
multitude,
it
offers
an
exhilarating summa
of the
forms and possibilities
of
resistancetoday.
It is a
politically
as
well
as an
intellectually invigorating achievement."—Fredric
Jameson,
Duke University
ISBN 17fl-D-t7M-D3Sll-1
common
MICHAEL
HARDT
ANTONIO
NEGRI
wealth
BELKNAP
and Negri's
thought,
it
also stands alone and
is
entirely accessible
to
readers
who are not
familiar
with
the
previous works.
It is
certain
to ap-
peal
to,
challenge,
and
enrich
the
thinking
of
anyone interested
in
questions
of
politics
and
globalization.
Photo
of
Antonio Negri
(left)
and Michael Hardt
by
Nora Parcu
MICHAEL
HARDT
is
Professor
of
Literature
and
Italian
at
Duke University.
ANTONIO NEGRI
is
an independent researcher and
writer.
They
are
coauthors
of
Empire
(Harvard) and
Multitude.
THE BELKNAP PRESS
OF
HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
PRESS
Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Design:
Jill Breitbarth
When
Empire
appeared in
2000,
it defined thepolitical and economic challenges of the era ofglobalization and,
thrillingly,
found in them
pos
sibilities for new and more democratic forms of
social
organization. Now,
with
Commonwealth,
Michael
Hardt and Antonio Negri conclude the
trilogy
begun
with
Empire
and continued in
Mul-titude,
proposing an ethics of freedom for livingin our common world and articulating a possibleconstitution for our common wealth.Drawing on scenarios
from
around the globeand elucidating the themes
that
unite them,Hardt and Negri focus on the logic of institutions and the models of governance adequateto our understanding of a global commonwealth. They argue for the idea of the
"com
mon"
to replace the opposition of private andpublic and the politics predicated on
that
opposition. Ultimately, they articulate the theoretical
bases
for
what
they call "governing the revolution."Though this book functions as an extensionand a completion of a sustained line of Hardt
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