'Empire' and imperialism : a critical reading of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri

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Title:

'Empire' and imperialism : a critical reading of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri

Author:

Borón, Atilio.

ISBN:

9781842775769

9781842775776

Personal Author:

Borón, Atilio.

Uniform Title:

Imperio & imperialismo. English

Publication Information:

New York : Zed Books, 2005.

Physical Description:

p. cm.

Contents:

1. On perspectives, the limits of visibility and blind spots -- 2. The constitution of the empire -- 3. Markets, transnational corporations and national economies -- 4. Alternative visions of the empire -- 5. The nation-state and the issue of sovereignty -- 6. The unsolved mystery of the multitude -- 7. Notes for a sociology of revolutionary thinking in times of defeat -- 8. The persistence of imperialism.

Personal Subject:

Hardt, Michael.

Negri, Antonio, 1933-.

Subject Term:

Imperialism.

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Summary

In 2001 Harvard Unversity Press published a post-modern analysis of imperialism by the Harvard scholar Michael Hardt and the independent Italian left-wing intellectual Toni Negri. The book, Empire , quickly became a huge bestseller in the US. Many other left-wing intellectuals, however, have been deeply disturbed by the book, feeling that it is analytically deeply misconceived, has unfortunate implications for political resistance to imperialism, and that it ignores both the experience and intellectual analysis of thinkers from the South.

Atilio Boron is one of those. He argues that Hardt and Negri's concept of 'imperialism without an address', though well intentioned, ignores most of the fundamental parameters of imperialism. The nation state, far from weakening, remains a crucial agent of capitalism, deploying a large arsenal of economic weaponry to protect and extend its position and actively promoting globalization in its own interests.