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In this biting and controversial analysis-now available in paperback-William Chaloupka scrutinizes the cynicism that is our common condition, examining both its uses in the politics of backlash and resentment and its surprisingly positive aspects. "A provocative study of political cynicism and pessimism." New York Review of Books

Noting that Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri's Empire (2000) ignores environmental politics, its challenge to left politics is extended to green politics. Discussion opens with a look at the modernism structuring green thought. In looking at Hardt & Negri's take on modernism, it is argued that reorienting the Left requires more than just pointing out modernism's bankruptcy. In this light, green agency, the form of knowledge integral to green agency, & place or locality, three components of green thought, are examined in relation to Hardt & Negri's ideas. While Empire makes progress toward reorienting the Left by opening space for mobility & diffusion, green politics offers opportunities for further advance. However, greens rarely examine & debate their ideological commitments in the manner that Empire engages the Left. Reading greens & Empire through & against each other sheds light on a green history the greens are unaware of & the antecedents to the seemingly new politics espoused in Hardt & Negri's text. J. Zendejas