Books by Michael Hardt

Gilles Deleuze, a major figure in the intellectual history of the late-20th century, inaugurated the radical non-Hegelianism that has marked French intellectual life during the past three decades. This book offers an understanding of Deleuze's complete body of work.

With Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri conclude the trilogy begun with Empire and continued in Multitude, proposing an ethics of freedom for living in our common world and articulating a possible constitution for our common wealth.

This work offers a key to understanding the works of Gilles Deleuze, a major figure in the intellectual history of the late-20th century

Essays on theory's role in contemporary politics, reading and critiques of literature

Empire, as Hardt and Negri demonstrate, is the new political order of globalization. Their book shows how this emerging structure is fundamentally different from the imperialism of European dominance and capitalist expansion in previous eras. Rather, today's Empire draws on the hybrid identities and expanding frontiers of U.S. constitutionalism.

How is it that labour has become the means of capitalist discipline, exploitation, and domination in modern society? The book provides a systematic analysis of the role of labour in the processes of capitalist production and the establishment of capitalist legal and social institutions.