Debating Empire

by BALAKRISHNAN, GOPALARONOWITZ, STANLEY

• ISBN13: 9781859845301
• ISBN10: 1859845304
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-17
• Publisher: Verso

Summary

Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's book Empire has been hailed as a latter day Communist Manifesto . Its ability to develop a theoretical framework relevant to the current period of global neo-liberalism and international capitalism captured the imagination of the growing anti-capitalist movement and has been claimed as a turning point for the left.As much as it has seduced and delighted some, however, it has enraged and frustrated others. In this collection, a series of some of the most acute international theorists and commentators of our times subject the book to trenchant and probing analysis from political, economic and philosophical perspectives, and Hardt and Negri respond to their questions and criticisms.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Gopal Balakrishnan	vii
1 Empire: A Postmodern Theory of Revolution	1	(18)
Michael Rustin
2 The New World Order	19	(7)
Stanley Aronowitz
3 A Nebulous Empire	26	(3)
Charles Tilly
4 Lineages of Empire	29	(14)
Giovanni Arrighi
5 Back to the Future?	43	(9)
Sanjay Seth
6 Gems and Baubles in Empire	52	(9)
Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin
7 A Manifesto for Global Capitalism?	61	(22)
Ellen Meiksins Wood
8 You Can't Build a New Society with a Stanley Knife	83	(14)
Malcolm Bull
9 The Italian Ideology	97	(24)
Timothy Brennan
10 Toni Negri in Perspective	121	(23)
Alex Callinicos
11 Grass-Roots Globalism	144	(11)
Tom Mertes
Notes on Contributors	155	(2)
Acknowledgements	157	(2)
Index	159