Empire's New Clothes
Reading Hardt and Negri
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Edited by Paul Passavant and Jodi Dean
Routledge
Due/Published
December 2003, 336 pages,
paper
ISBN
0415935555
The publication of Hardt and Negri's Empire created a sensation that spread from academia to the media to cocktail-party buzz. A book that causes such a scholarly commotion comes along only once every decade or so wrote the New York Times, as the book's radical vision of imperial power in the new millennium sparked both histrionic condemnation and serious academic engagement. After September 11 this discussion of Empire's political and legal theories was closely linked with the struggle to redefine America's place in a changed world. The book was read as a diagnosis of our era and a call for liberatory action. Framing the debate about this landmark work, The Empire's New Clothes brings together leading scholars to make sense of Empire's new vocabulary and tackle its claims head on. Does the authors' vision accurately describe the power structure of today's world? Do the processes of globalization today represent a fundamental break from the past? Is the book really a communist manifesto for the new age? The Empire's New Clothesinvestigates these and other key issues, giving academics, students, and lay readers a handle on a work that touches the most vital themes of current political, social, and economic life. Contents Introduction: Postmodern Republicanism, Paul A. Passavant Immanence
1. Can Immanence Explain Social Struggles? Ernesto Laclau Transcendence
2. The Immanence of Empire, Peter Fitzpatrick Market
3. On Divine Markets and the Problem of Justice, Bill Maurer Law
4. Legal Imperialism: Empire's Invisible Hand? Ruth Buchanan and Sundhya Pahuja Representation
5. From Empire's Law to the Multitude's Rights: Law, Representation, Revolution, Paul A. Passavant Sovereignty
6. Representing the International: Sovereignty after Modernity? Mark Laffey and Jutta Weldes Global
7. Africa's Ambiguous Relation to Empire and Empire, Kevin C. Dunn Intermezzo: The Theory & Event Interview Sovereignty, Multitudes, Absolute Democracy
A Discussion between Michael Hardt and Thomas Dumm Space
8. The Repositioning of Citizenship: Emergent Subjects and Spaces for Politics, Saskia Sassen Place
9. The Irrepressible Lightness of Joy and of Being Green: Empire and Environmentalism, William Chaloupka Migration
10. Smooth Politics, Malcolm Bull Generation
11. Taking the Millennialist Pulse of Empire's Multitude: A Genealogical Feminist Analysis, Lee Quinby Capitalism
12. The Ideology of Empire and Its Traps, Slavoj Zizek Communication
13. The Networked Empire: Communicative Capitalism and the Hope for Politics, Jodi Dean Revolution
14. The Myth of the Multitude, Kam Shapiro Event
15. Representation and the Event, Paul A. Passavant and Jodi Dean Contributors |
