Michael Hardt teaches in the Literature Program at Duke University. His previous books include Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy (1993), Empire (forthcoming) and with Antonion Negri he is co-author of Labor of Dionysus: A Critique of the State-form (1994). Kathi Weeks teaches in the Politics department at Fairfield University. She is the author of Constituting Feminist Subjects (1998).

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• Introduction. Part I: Paradigms of Interpretation:.1. On Interpretation: Literature as a Socially Symbolic Act (1981).2. Towards Dialectical Criticism (1971).3. T.W. Adorno (1971).4. Roland Barthes and Structuralism (1972).5. Imaginary and Symbolic in Lacan (1977).Part II: Marxism and Culture: .6. On Jargon (1977).7. Base and Superstructure (1990).8. Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture (1979).9. Marxism and the Historicity of Theory: An Interview by Xudong Zhang (1998).10. Five Theses on Actually Existing Marxism.Part III: Postmodernism:.11. Beyond the Cave: Demystifying the Ideology of Modernism (1975).12. Postmodernism, or The Cultural Login of Late Capitalism (1984).13. The Antinomies of Postmodernity (1994).14. Culture and Finance Capital (1997).Part IV: Exercises in Cognitive Mapping: .15. Cognitive Mapping (1998).16. Class and Allegory in Contemporary Mass Culture: Dog Day Afternoon as a Political Film (1977).17. National Allegory in Wyndham Lewis (1979).18. Third World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism (1986).19. Totality as Conspiracy (1992).Part V: Utopia: .20. Introduction/Prospectus: To Reconsider the Relationship of Marxism to Utopian Thought (1976).21. World-Reduction in Le Guin: The Emergence of Utopian Narrative (1975).22. Utopian and Anti-Utopianism (1994).Bibliography.Index.