出版社：American Sociological Association Section on Political Economy of the World System
摘要：Readers from a number of di. erent disciplines and perspectives have highlighted the fuzziness of its categories, its overgeneralizations, its failures to identify contradictions within either Empire or the multitude. Th e response to Empire was not, therefore, simply a response to its intellectual achievement in explaining the world and producing categories adequate to the task it adopted. Instead, the response to Empire needs to be seen in the context of three things the text tries to do: fi rst, enact reconciliation between poststructuralist discourses, globalization discourses, and Marxism; secondly, reconcile the US as a utopian project with Marxism; and third, renew optimism on the left. Th ese moves were all so audacious that the text could resonate with wide audiences even if the authors do not really achieve all they had set out to do
