Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Empire and beyond -- 1. The empire and beyond : aporias and contradictions -- 2. An axiomatics for empire -- 3. Crucial transitions in empire -- 4. Empire and war -- 5. Tendencies and drives towards the recomposition of aristocracy in empire -- 6. Utopias and resistance in empire -- 7. Empire and citizenship -- 8. Living the imperial transition--in order to struggle -- 9. Resistance and multitude -- 10. The monstrous multitude -- 11. Multitudo, utopia station -- 12. Peace and war -- 13. Art and culture in the age of empire and the time of multitudes -- 14. Marx/impero-imperialism -- pt. 2. Europe : an opportunity for struggle -- 15. Europe and empire : issues and problems -- 16. Europe and the United States in empire -- 17. Europe between universalism and national differences : a possible Europe -- 18. A thousand European issues -- 19. Notes on laying the basis for foreign policy in the European Union -- pt. 3. Post-socialist politics -- 20. Social alternatives to neo-liberalism -- 21. A post-socialist politics within empire -- 22. The new phase of empire -- 23. Urban democracy -- 24. For a new welfare -- pt. 4. Political philosophy in imperial postmodernity -- 25. Postmodernity and liberty -- 26. The communism of immanence -- 27. Bio-power and subjectivity -- 28. Multitude and bio-power -- 29. Empire and war -- 30. Let us reform the political lexicon! -- 31. The biopolitics of general intellect -- 32. The philosophy of 'old Europe' -- 33. The actor and the spectator : immaterial labour, public service, intellectual cooperation and the construction of the common -- 34. Real time and the time of exploitation -- 35. A new Foucault -- 36. Postmodernity or contemporaneity?