Debating Empire

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by Gopal Balakrishnan

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Due/Published December 2003, 288 pages, paper

ISBN 1859844529

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 analysis from political, economic and philosophical perspectives, and Hardt and Negri respond to their questions and criticisms.

Contributors; Aijaz Ahmad, Giovanni Arrighi, Gopal Balakrishnan, Attilio Boron, Timothy Brennan, Malcolm Bull, Michael Hart, Antonio Negri, Ellen Meiksins Wood

Series: New Left Debates