{"title":"Books by Pierre Dardot","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781350021211","title":"Common","description":"\u003cp\u003eAround 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 \u003ci\u003ecommon.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInstead 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 \u003ci\u003ecommoning\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003erevolution\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297649209717,"sku":"9781350021211","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781350021211_1e768641-2996-4847-afc9-249923be62a6.jpg?v=1786017985"},{"product_id":"9781786634740","title":"Never Ending Nightmare","description":"\u003cb\u003eNeoliberalism's war against democracy and how to resist it\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow do we explain the strange survival of the forces responsible 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHowever, 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.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56305593287029,"sku":"9781786634740","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781786634740_66fbadcf-ee5e-4037-b011-75088efac7f0.jpg?v=1786025653"},{"product_id":"9781804296189","title":"The Choice of Civil War","description":"\u003cb\u003eTURNING CITIZENS INTO ENEMIES, NEOLIBERAL GOVERNMENTS HAMSTRING DEMOCRACY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMargaret Thatcher’s mantra ‘there is no alternative’ was not a statement of historical fact but a strategic objective. She shared with Hayek, Pinochet, Mises, Trump, Bolsonaro, and Macron a commitment to utilizing ideology, constitutional economics, labour discipline, and culture wars, as well as police and military force, to prevent popular resistance from organizing. Whatever their doctrinal differences, they all see the state’s tight control of democracy as the most effective means of defeating egalitarian alternatives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNeoliberalism persists today thanks to its ability to defeat opponents while deepening social and cultural regression.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369213178229,"sku":"9781804296189","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781804296189.jpg?v=1790000815"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-pierre-dardot.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}