Michael Hardt

Michael Hardt

Born in Washington DC in 1960, he is a political philosopher and literary critic, currently based at Duke University, North Carolina. Following his engineering degree, he began working for solar energy companies in Latin America, thinking that supplying alternative energy sources to third world countries was the best way to activate politically. Finally, after working for various NGOs in Central America, he decided to return to the US and dedicate himself to studying the possibilities for fundamental social and political change in his own country. In 1990 he received a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Washington. His most famous works are "Empire" (2000) and "Multitude: war and democracy in the age of empire" (2004), they were written in collaboration with Antonio Negri. In 2009 to these works will be added the third part of the trilogy, entitled "Commonwealth". Michael Hardt is also the author of "Gilles Deleuze: an Apprenticeship in Philosophy" (1993) and "Labor of Dionysus: A Critique of the State Form" (also written in collaboration with Antonio Negri, 1994), "Radical Thought in Italy (co-edited with Paolo Virno, 1996), and "The Jameson Reader" (with Kathi Weeks, 2000).