Description: Empire, as Hardt and Negri demonstrate, is the new political order of globalization. Their book shows how this emerging structure is fundamentally different from the imperialism of European dominance and capitalist expansion in previous eras. Rather, today's Empire draws on the hybrid identities and expanding frontiers of U.S. constitutionalism.
Brief description: Michael Hardt is Professor of Literature and Italian at Duke University.
Review Quotes: By way of Spinoza, Wittgenstein, Marx, the Vietnam War, and even Bill Gates, Empire offers an irresistible, iconoclastic analysis of the 'globalized' world. Revolutionary, even visionary, Empire identifies the imminent new power of the multitude to free themselves from capitalist bondage.--Leslie Marmon Silko, author of Almanac of the Dead