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Exploring the genesis of neoliberalism, and the political and
economic circumstances of its deployment, Pierre Dardot and
Christian Laval dispel numerous common misconceptions.
Neoliberalism is neither a return to classical liberalism nor the
restoration of "pure" capitalism. To misinterpret neoliberalism is
to fail to understand what is new about it: far from viewing the
market as a natural given that limits state action, neoliberalism
seeks to construct the market and use it as a model for
governments. Only once this is grasped will its opponents be able
to meet the unprecedented political and intellectual challenge it
poses.
Exploring the genesis of neoliberalism, and the political and
economic circumstances of its deployment, Pierre Dardot and
Christian Laval dispel numerous common misconceptions.
Neoliberalism is neither a return to classical liberalism nor the
restoration of "pure" capitalism. To misinterpret neoliberalism is
to fail to understand what is new about it: far from viewing the
market as a natural given that limits state action, neoliberalism
seeks to construct the market and make the firm a model for
governments. Only once this is grasped will its opponents be able
to meet the unprecedented political and intellectual challenge it
poses.
How do we explain the strange survival of the forcesresponsible for
the 2008 economic crisis, one of the worst since 1929? How do we
explain the fact that neoliberalism has emerged from the crisis
strengthened? When it broke, a number of the most prominent
economists hastened to announce the 'death' of neoliberalism. They
regarded the pursuit of neoliberal policy as the fruit of
dogmatism. For Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval, neoliberalism is
no mere dogma. Supported by powerful oligarchies, it is a veritable
politico-institutional system that obeys a logic of
self-reinforcement. Far from representing a break, crisis has
become a formidably effective mode of government. In showing how
this system crystallized and solidified, the book explains that the
neoliberal straitjacket has succeeded in preventing any course
correction by progressively deactivating democracy. Increasing the
disarray and demobilization, the so-called 'governmental' Left has
actively helped strengthen this oligarchical logic. The latter
could lead to a definitive exit from democracy in favour of
expertocratic governance, free of any control. However, nothing has
been decided yet. The revival of democratic activity, which we see
emerging in the political movements and experiments of recent
years, is a sign that the political confrontation with the
neoliberal system and the oligarchical bloc has already begun.
Around the globe, contemporary protest movements are contesting the
oligarchic appropriation of natural resources, public services, and
shared networks of knowledge and communication. These struggles
raise the same fundamental demand and rest on the same irreducible
principle: the common. In this exhaustive account, Pierre Dardot
and Christian Laval show how the common has become the defining
principle of alternative political movements in the 21st century.
In societies deeply shaped by neoliberal rationality, the common is
increasingly invoked as the operative concept of practical
struggles creating new forms of democratic governance. In a feat of
analytic clarity, Dardot and Laval dissect and synthesize a vast
repository on the concept of the commons, from the fields of
philosophy, political theory, economics, legal theory, history,
theology, and sociology. Instead of conceptualizing the common as
an essence of man or as inherent in nature, the thread developed by
Dardot and Laval traces the active lives of human beings: only a
practical activity of commoning can decide what will be shared in
common and what rules will govern the common's citizen-subjects.
This re-articulation of the common calls for nothing less than the
institutional transformation of society by society: it calls for a
revolution.
Around the globe, contemporary protest movements are contesting the
oligarchic appropriation of natural resources, public services, and
shared networks of knowledge and communication. These struggles
raise the same fundamental demand and rest on the same irreducible
principle: the common. In this exhaustive account, Pierre Dardot
and Christian Laval show how the common has become the defining
principle of alternative political movements in the 21st century.
In societies deeply shaped by neoliberal rationality, the common is
increasingly invoked as the operative concept of practical
struggles creating new forms of democratic governance. In a feat of
analytic clarity, Dardot and Laval dissect and synthesize a vast
repository on the concept of the commons, from the fields of
philosophy, political theory, economics, legal theory, history,
theology, and sociology. Instead of conceptualizing the common as
an essence of man or as inherent in nature, the thread developed by
Dardot and Laval traces the active lives of human beings: only a
practical activity of commoning can decide what will be shared in
common and what rules will govern the common's citizen-subjects.
This re-articulation of the common calls for nothing less than the
institutional transformation of society by society: it calls for a
revolution.
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