InhaltsangabePREFACE. PART ONE. Empire and beyond. THE EMPIRE AND BEYOND, APORIAS AND CONTRADICTIONS. AN AXIOMATICS FOR EMPIRE. CRUCIAL TRANSITIONS IN EMPIRE. EMPIRE AND WAR. TENDENCIES AND DRIVES TOWARDS THE RECOMPOSITION OF ARISTOCRACY IN EMPIRE. UTOPIAS AND RESISTANCE IN EMPIRE. EMPIRE AND CITIZENSHIP. LIVING THE IMPERIAL TRANSITION - IN ORDER TO STRUGGLE. RESISTANCE AND MULTITUDE. THE MONSTROUS MULTITUDE. MULTITUDO, UTOPIA STATION. PEACE AND WAR. ART AND CULTURE IN THE AGE OF EMPIRE AND THE TIME OF MULTITUDES. MARX / IMPERO-IMPERIALISM. PART TWO:. Europe Opportunities For Struggle. EUROPE AND EMPIRE: ISSUES AND PROBLEMS. EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES IN EMPIRE. EUROPE BETWEEN UNIVERSALISM AND NATIONAL DIFFERENCES: A POSSIBLE EUROPE. A THOUSAND EUROPEAN ISSUES. NOTES ON LAYING THE BASIS FOR FOREIGN POLICY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION. PART THREE. Postsocialist politics. SOCIAL ALTERNATIVES TO NEOLIBERALISM. A POSTSOCIALIST POLITICS WITHIN EMPIRE. THE NEW PHASE OF EMPIRE. URBAN DEMOCRACY. FOR A NEW WELFARE. . PART FOUR. Political philosophy in imperial post-modernity. POSTMODERNITY AND LIBERTY. THE COMMUNISM OF IMMANENCE. BIOPOWER AND SUBJECTIVITY. MULTITUDE AND BIO-POWER. EMPIRE AND WAR. REFORMING THE LEXICON OF POLITICS. THE BIOPOLITICS OF GENERAL INTELLECT. THE PHILOSOPHY OF "OLD EUROPE". THE ACTOR AND THE SPECTATOR: IMMATERIAL LABOUR, PUBLIC SERVICE, INTELLECTUAL COOPERATION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COMMON. REAL TIME AND THE TIME OF EXPLOITATION. A NEW FOUCAULT?. POSTMODERNITY OR CONTEMPORANEITY?

Antonio Negri was formerly Professor of State Theory at the the University of Padua.