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Debating Empire

Name: Debating Empire
Author: Gopal Balakrishnan
ISBN: 9781859844526

by Gopal Balakrishnan (Editor), Stanley Aronowitz (Contribution by), Giovanni Arrighi

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Overview

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 neoliberalism and international capitalism captured the imagination of the growing anticapitalist 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.

Synopsis

Acute international theorists and commentators of our times subject Empire to trenchant and probing analysis.

About the Author, Gopal Balakrishnan

Gopal Balakrishnan is the author of The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt, and editor of Debating "Empire" and (with Benedict Anderson) Mapping the Nation. A member of the New Left Review editorial board, he teaches Contemporary Theory at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Giovanni Arrighi is Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. His books include Adam Smith in Bejing, and his work has appeared in many publications, including New Left Review.

Timothy Brennan is professor of comparative literature, cultural studies, and English at the University of Minnesota. His books include At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now and, most recently, Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of the Left and Right. He writes for a number of journals, including New Left Review and The Nation.

Ellen Meiksins Wood, for many years Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto, is the author of a number of books, including Democracy Against Capitalism and, with Verso, The Pristine Culture of Capitalism, The Origin of Capitalism, Peasant-Citizen and Slave and Empire of Capital. She lives in London.