HIS330H5 Chapter : 9 hardt and negri.docx
Document Summary
The new science of democracy: madison and lenin by hardt and negri is primarily about the multitude. Firstly the multitude is an important factor of beasley- Murray s posthegemony theory and was used to argue against hegemony theory. Hardt and negri discuss three main aspects of multitude. An ontological perspective, sociological perspective, and the one they spend the most time discussing is the political perspective. Throughout the reading they relate the multitude as a form of. From an ontological perspective the multitude is a production of the social life and generated by continuous encounters and communications with bodies (so could i say it s the multitude is generated by continuous affects with other people. From a sociological perspective the power of the multitude (called constituent power?) is built by cooperative and communicative networks. Hardt and negri find that the purpose of the multitude is essentially political. They see the multitude as having to eliminate sovereignty (which according to hardt and.
