Description
Book SynopsisDraws on past philosophical debates to propose a new way of conceiving the commons in today's neo-liberal era.
Trade Review'A bold, brilliant and ultimately hopeful attempt to build a critique of liberalism and neoliberalism on different foundations' -- Mark Fisher, Goldsmiths
'A serious and courageous engagement with the deepest issue of our time. Humanity cannot go on as we are, but how do we change course? Gilbert starts to build a strategy from the wreckage' -- Anthony Barnett, founder of openDemocracy
'We live in an interregnum. The old is not yet dead and the new is yet to be born. No one understands this moment better than Jeremy Gilbert.' -- Neal Lawson, Chair for Compass
'The task of a philosophy of relation, of a transindividual philosophy, is not just to assert the reality of relations, but to understand how those very relations individuate us. Gilbert's book is an important contribution to such a project' -- Jason Read, The New Inquiry
'A bold, brilliant and ultimately hopeful attempt to build a critique of liberalism and neoliberalism on different foundations' -- William Davies, Goldsmiths
'Addresses the most urgent practical questions about individualism and collectivism, using the most sophisticated theoretical tools available to progressive thought' -- Lawrence Grossberg, Morris Davis Distinguished Professor of Media Studies & Cultural Studies at UNC, and author of Cultural Studies in the Future Tense (Duke University Press, 2010)
'Jeremy Gilbert is a master storyteller, reassembling critical traditions and opening up contemporary cases. In contrast to much theorising of the present, Common Ground honours the liveness and the conceptual vitality of the political: a necessity, in this exciting and terrifying contemporary moment' -- Lauren Berlant, George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor, Department of English, University of Chicago
Table of ContentsPreface
1. Postmodernity and the Crisis of Democracy
2. A War of All Against All: Neoliberal Hegemony and Competitive Individualism
3. Leviathan Logics: Group Psychology from Hobbes to Laclau
4. The State of Community Opened: Multitude and Multiplicity
5. The Non-Fascist Crowd: Individuation and Infinite Relationality
6. Feeling Together: Affect, Identity and the Politics of the Common
7. On the Impossibility of Making Decisions: Affect, Agency and the Democratic Sublime
Conclusions
Notes
Index
