Empire's New Clothes
Subtitle: Reading Hardt and Negri
Contributors: Jodi Dean (Co-editor); Paul Passavant (Co-editor)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 12, 2003
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780415935555
First sentence: In a recent interview, Jacques Ranciere opposes his notion of "people" (peuple) to the category of "multitude" as presented by the authors of Empire.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: postmodern republicanism / Paul A. Passavant; title: 1. Can immanence explain social struggles? / Ernesto Laclau; title: 2. Immanence of Empire / Peter Fitzpatrick; title: 3. On divine markets and the problem of justice: Empire as theodicy / Bill Maurer; title: 4. Legal imperialism: Empire's invisible hand? / Ruth Buchanan, Sundhya Pahuja; title: 5. From Empire's law to multitude's rights: law, representation, revolution / Paul A. Passavant; title: 6. Representing the internation: sovereignty after modernity / Mark Laffey, Jutta Weldes; title: 7. Africa's ambiguous relation to empire and Empire / Kevin C. Dunn; title: Theory & Event interview: sovereignty, multitudes, absolute democracy: a discussion between Michael Hardt and Thomas L. Dumm about Hardt's and Negri's Empire; title: 8. Repositioning of citizenship: emergent subjects and spaces for politics / Saskia Sassen; title: 9. Irrepressible lightness and joy of being green: Empire and environmentalism / William Chaloupka; title: 10. Smooth politics / Malcolm Bull. 11. Taking the millennialist pulse of Empire's multitude: a genealogical feminist diagnosis / Lee Quinby; title: 12. Ideology of the Empire and its traps / Slavoj Zizek; title: 13. Networked empire: communicative capitalism and the hope for politics / Jodi Dean; title: 14. Myth of the multitude / Kam Shapiro; title: 15. Representation and the event / Paul A. Passavant, Jodi Dean