| Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire | |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Release Date: | 2004 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardcover & Paperback) |
| Pages: | 448 pp. |
| Isbn: | 1-59420-024-6 |
| Dewey: | 321.8 22 |
| Congress: | JC423 .H364 2004 |
| Oclc: | 54487542 |
| Preceded By: | Empire |
| Followed By: | Commonwealth |
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"; 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]