Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of EmpireBook by Antonio Negri and Michael

Hardt
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire AuthorMichael Hardt and Antonio
NegriCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishSubjectPolitical
ScienceMarxismGlobalizationPhilosophyPostmodernismPublisherPenguin BooksPublication
date2004Media typePrint (Hardcover & Paperback)Pages448 pp.ISBN1-59420-024-
6OCLC54487542Dewey Decimal321.8 22LC ClassJC423 .H364
2004Preceded byEmpire Followed byCommonwealth 
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Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire is a book by post-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).

Contents

1 Summary
2 Notes
3 Further reading
4 External links

Summary[edit]
Multitude 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[edit]

^ a b Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of
Empire. Penguin Books. 2009. Pg. 4. Pg. 100.

^ Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt. Empire. Harvard University Press. 2000. Pg 15.

Further reading[edit]
Welsh, John. (2016) The shadow: alter-visibility in an empire of the seen.
Distinktion 17(1): 57-77. [1].
External links[edit]

Wikiquote has quotations related to Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri.

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.