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Michael Hardt (born 1960) is an American literary theorist and political philosopher based at Duke University. His most famous work is Empire written with Antonio Negri. The sequel to Empire, Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, was released in August, 2004, and details the idea of the multitude as the site of a global democratic movement. Born in Washington DC, Hardt attended Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Maryland. He studied engineering at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania from 1978 to 1983. After college, he worked for various solar energy companies. Hardt also worked with NGOs in Central America, doing tasks like bringing donated computers from the U.S. and putting them together for the University of El Salvador. In 1983, he moved to Seattle to study comparative literature at the University of Washington. Hardt received his M.A. in 1986 and his PhD in 1990. He then went to Paris where he met Negri, beginning their collaborative relationship soon after. Hardt speak French and Italian, and is Professor of Literature and Italian at Duke University.
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Michael Hardt is a professor of philosophy and politics at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he conducts an Intensive Summer Seminar. |
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