개요
Imperialism as we knew it may be no more, but Empire is alive and well. It is, as Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri demonstrate in this bold work, the new political order of globalization. It is easy to recognize the contemporary economic, cultural, and legal transformations taking place across the globe but difficult to understand them. Hardt and Negri contend that they should be seen in line with our historical understanding of Empire as a universal order that accepts no boundaries or limits. Their book shows how this emerging Empire is fundamentally different from the imperialism of European dominance and capitalist expansion in previous eras. Rather, today’s Empire draws on elements of U.S. constitutionalism, with its tradition of hybrid identities and expanding frontiers.
Empire identifies a radical shift in concepts that form the philosophical basis of modern politics, concepts such as sovereignty, nation, and people. Hardt and Negri link this philosophical transformation to cultural and economic changes in postmodern society—to new forms of racism, new conceptions of identity and difference, new networks of communication and control, and new paths of migration. They also show how the power of transnational corporations and the increasing predominance of postindustrial forms of labor and production help to define the new imperial global order.
More than analysis, Empire is also an unabashedly utopian work of political philosophy, a new Communist Manifesto. Looking beyond the regimes of exploitation and control that characterize today’s world order, it seeks an alternative political paradigm—the basis for a truly democratic global society.
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Front Matter i
Table of Contents ix
PREFACE xi
PART 1 The Political Constitution of the Present
1.1 WORLD ORDER 3
1.2 BIOPOLITICAL PRODUCTION 22
1.3 ALTERNATIVES WITHIN EMPIRE 42
PART 2 Passages of Sovereignty
2.1 TWO EUROPES, TWO MODERNITIES 69
2.2 SOVEREIGNTY OF THE NATION-STATE 93
2.3 THE DIALECTICS OF COLONIAL SOVEREIGNTY 114
2.4 SYMPTOMS OF PASSAGE 137
2.5 NETWORK POWER: U.S. SOVEREIGNTY AND THE NEW EMPIRE 160
2.6 IMPERIAL SOVEREIGNTY 183
INTERMEZZO: COUNTER-EMPIRE 205
PART 3 Passages of Production
3.1 THE LIMITS OF IMPERIALISM 221
3.2 DISCIPLINARY GOVERNABILITY 240
3.3 RESISTANCE, CRISIS, TRANSFORMATION 260
3.4 POSTMODERNIZATION, OR THE INFORMATIZATION OF PRODUCTION 280
3.5 MIXED CONSTITUTION 304
3.6 CAPITALIST SOVEREIGNTY, OR ADMINISTERING THE GLOBAL SOCIETY OF CONTROL 325
PART 4 The Decline and Fall of Empire
4.1 VIRTUALITIES 353
4.2 GENERATION AND CORRUPTION 370
4.3 THE MULTITUDE AGAINST EMPIRE 393
NOTES 415
INDEX 473
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