The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society - Hardcover

Laval, Christian; Dardot, Pierre

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781681767 ISBN 13: 9781781681763

Publisher: Verso Books, 2014

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"Erudite and provocative."
--Los Angeles Review of Books

"The New Way of the World is the best modern realization of Foucault's pioneering approach to the history of neoliberalism. It wonderfully explores the European roots and branches of the neoliberal thought collective over the twentieth century, and warns that unthinking misrepresentations of its political project as espousing 'laissez-faire' has had the effect of allowing the Left to submit to its siren song."
--Philip Mirowski, author of Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste

"Extremely scholarly, this book is an insistent invitation to push theoretical and social critique of the present order beyond the standard analyses."
--Le Monde diplomatique

"To understand these debates [on neoliberalism], the book by Christian Laval and Pierre Dardot on the 'neoliberal society' offers us analytical keys. This monument of scholarship draws on the history of ideas, philosophy and sociology."
--Le Monde

"A compelling analysis of neoliberal governmentally in the era of capitalist financialization."
--Theory, Culture & Society

About the Author:

PIERRE DARDOT is a philosopher and specialist in Hegel and Marx. His previous books include Sauver Marx?: Empire, multitude, travail immate riel (with Christian Laval and El Mouhoub Mouhoud) and Marx, pre nom: Karl (with Christian Laval). CHRISTIAN LAVAL is Professor of Sociology at the Universite de Paris Ouest Nanterre La De fense. His other books include L'Ambition sociologique: Saint-Simon, Comte, Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, Weber; Jeremy Bentham, les artifices du capitalism; L'E cole n'est pas une entreprise: Le ne o-libe ralisme a l'assaut de l'enseignement public; and L'Homme e conomique: Essai sur les racines du ne olibe ralisme.

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1781681767
• ISBN 13: 9781781681763
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352