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''Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire'' is a book by post-marxist philosophers Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, published in 2004. It is the second installment of a "trilogy" also comprising ''Empire (2000) '' and ''Commonwealth'' (2009). ==Summary== The rapid growth of the alter-globalisation movement, evident in the large protests in Seattle in 1999 and in Genova in 2001, along with the creation of the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, also in 2001, seemed to substantiate the optimistic outlook at the end of ''Empire''. The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and subsequent rise of state-sponsored "counter-terrorism" seem, however, to have complicated this optimism. ''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."〔Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt. Empire. Harvard University Press. 2000. Pg 15.〕 ''Multitude'' is divided into three sections: "War," which addresses the current "global civil war";〔Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire. Penguin Books. 2009. Pg. 4. Pg. 100.〕 "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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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