Volume 49, Number 17 · November 7, 2002
Apocalypse Soon
By Alexander Stille
Empire
by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Harvard University Press, 478 pp., $36.95; $18.95 (paper)
The book Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri has come as close to becoming an international best seller as a university press book dense with references to Spinoza, Marx, and Gilles Deleuze is likely to get. Translated into more than a dozen languages, it has become a cult book among the anti-globalization protest movement, praised by academics from Berkeley and Buenos Aires to London and Paris. When a major American university raised the possibility of hiring Negri, someone observed that this was impossible since he is still serving a lengthy prison term in Italy—although under a form of house arrest—for heading a 'subversive organization' during the 1970s, the most violent years of Italian terrorism.
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