Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

Author	Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Language	English
Subject	Political Science Marxism Globalization Philosophy Postmodernism
Publisher	Penguin Books
Publication date	2004
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages	448 pp.
ISBN	1-59420-024-6
OCLC	54487542
Dewey Decimal	321.8 22
LC Class	JC423 .H364 2004
Preceded by	Empire
Followed by	Commonwealth

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Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire is a book by autonomous Marxist philosophers Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt that was published in 2004. It is the second installment of a "trilogy", also comprising Empire (2000) and Commonwealth (2009).

Multitude is divided into three sections: "War," which addresses the current "global civil war";^[1] "Multitude," which elucidates the "multitude" as an "active social subject, which acts on the basis of what the singularities share in common";^[1] and, "Democracy," which critiques traditional forms of political representation and gestures toward alternatives.

Multitude addresses these issues and elaborates on the assertion, in the Preface to Empire, that:

"The creative forces of the multitude that sustain Empire are also capable of autonomously constructing a counter-Empire, an alternative political organization of global flows and exchanges."^[2]

• Welsh, John. (2016) The shadow: alter-visibility in an empire of the seen. Distinktion 17(1): 57-77. [1].

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