Debating Empire (New Left Review Debates)

Book Description
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.

About the Author
Gopal Balakrishnan teaches at the University of Chicago, is a member of the editorial board of New Left Review and the editor of Mapping the Nation, also published by Verso.


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Published in 2000, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's book, Empire, has been hailed by some as a latter-day Communist Manifesto. This volume contains 11 contributions from radical scholars (and one union official) analyzing the text from political, economic, and philosophical perspectives. They point out where Hardt and Negri went too far or not far enough and contend that certain populations were simply excluded from their conversation. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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