Duke the Program In Literature

  • Michael Hardt

  • Literature
  • 101F Friedl Building
  • Campus Box 90670
  • Phone: (919) 684-1969
  • Fax: (919) 684-3598
  • Office Hours: Wednesday 1 - 4pm
    For appointments please contact Karen Bell, kbell@duke.edu

  • Specialties

    • Critical Theory
    • Comparative Philosophy

  • Research Summary

    Globalization, Political and Cultural Theory, and Modern Italian Literature

  • Research Description

    Michael Hardt's recent writings deal primarily with the political, legal, economic, and social aspects of globalization. In his books with Antonio Negri he has analyzed the functioning of the current global power structure as well as the possible political and economic alternatives to that structure based on new institutions of shared, common wealth. Many of his seminars focus on the work of important figures in the history of critical theory and political theory, such as Marx, Jefferson, Gramsci, Foucault, Deleuze, and Guattari. He also works on modern Italian literature and culture.

  • Education

      • PhD, Comparative Literature,
      • Comparative Literature,
      • University of Washington,
      • 1990
      • MA, Comparative Literature,
      • University of Washington,
      • 1986
      • BS, Engineering,
      • Engineering,
      • Swarthmore College,
      • 1983

  • Selected Publications

      • with
      • Antonio Negri.
      • Declaration.
      • Argo Navis (self published),
      • 2012.
      • with
      • Antonio Negri.
      • Commonwealth.
      • Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
      • 2009.
      • with
      • Antonio Negri.
      • Multitude.
      • New York: Penguin Press,
      • 2004.
      • with
      • Antonio Negri.
      • Empire.
      • Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
      • 2000.
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Michael Hardt
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