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Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism
Pluto Press, 2013 Paper: 978-0-7453-2531-6 | Cloth: 978-0-7453-2532-3 Library of Congress Classification JC423.G455 2014 Dewey Decimal Classification 302.5
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Common Ground explores the philosophical relationship between collectivity, individuality, affect and agency in the neoliberal era. Jeremy Gilbert argues that individualism is forced upon us by neoliberal culture, fatally limiting our capacity to escape the current crisis of democratic politics. See other books on: Collectivity | Common Ground | Individualism | Neoliberalism | Social participation See other titles from Pluto Press |
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Common Ground: Democracy and Collectivity in an Age of Individualism
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
Pluto Press, 2013
Paper: 978-0-7453-2531-6
Cloth: 978-0-7453-2532-3
Paper: 978-0-7453-2531-6
Cloth: 978-0-7453-2532-3
Common Ground explores the philosophical relationship between collectivity, individuality, affect and agency in the neoliberal era. Jeremy Gilbert argues that individualism is forced upon us by neoliberal culture, fatally limiting our capacity to escape the current crisis of democratic politics.
The book asks how forces and ideas opposed to neoliberal hegemony, and to the individualist tradition in Western thought, might serve to protect some form of communality, and how far we must accept assumptions about the nature of individuality and collectivity which are the legacy of an elitist tradition. Along the way it examines different ideas and practices of collectivity, from conservative notions of hierarchical and patriarchal communities to the politics of ‘horizontality’ and ‘the commons’ which are at the heart of radical movements today.
Exploring this fundamental faultline in contemporary political struggle, Common Ground proposes a radically non-individualist mode of imagining social life, collective creativity and democratic possibility.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
