L'Empire a encore frappé
The Empire strikes again. This article puts forward a sharp critique of Hardt and Negri’s Empire. Despite the book’s « post-modern » apparel, what it actually proposes is a pairing of two teleological « grand narratives». The first of these is a history of western political thought which is basic...
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Lenguaje: | Français |
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2003
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| Acceso en línea: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumario: | The Empire strikes again.
This article puts forward a sharp critique of Hardt and Negri’s Empire. Despite the book’s
« post-modern » apparel, what it actually proposes is a pairing of two teleological « grand
narratives». The first of these is a history of western political thought which is basically an
apologia for the American constitution, whose ultimate manifestation is this hypothetical empire,
the contemporary guise of an elusive political power. As for the second narrative, it sketches a
history of capitalism which, by way of its incarnations in the figures of the « professional
worker » and the « mass worker », at last arrives at the figures of the « social worker » and the
multitude, the latter being the-equally elusive- figure in a rather curious version of French
communism. Faced with an epoch marked by a series of transformations requiring the most
rigorous examination, telling such « stories » is a futile exercise. |
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