Never Ending Nightmare : The Neoliberal Assault on Democracy /: The Neoliberal Assault on Democracy. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval ; translated by Gregory Elliott.
• Authors: Dardot, Pierre; Laval, Christian
• Other Names: Elliott, Gregory translator.
• Contents: Cover Page; Halftitle Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface to the English Edition: Anatomy of the New Neoliberalism; Introduction: From Bad to Worse; 1. Governing by Crisis; Oligarchy against Democracy; The Radicalization of Neoliberalism; Crisis as a Method of Government; Crisis as a Weapon of War; 2. The Neoliberal Project: An Anti-Democratic Project; Against 'Popular Sovereignty'; The Pre-eminence of Private Law over Government and State; 'Demarchy' or the Constitutionalization of Private Law; The Ordo-Liberal Idea of an 'Economic Constitution' 3. Neoliberal System and CapitalismThe Disciplinary System of Competition; The Neoliberal System and the 'Laws' of Capital; Extending the Boundaries of the Appropriation of Nature Ever Further; Limitlessness as a Regime of Subjectivity; 4. The European Union, or, The Empire of Norms; The 'European Project': From the Narrative of Origins to Historical Reality; The Construction of the Mega Market; The 'Expertocratic' Governance of the European Union; Budget and Currency as Disciplinary Tools; In What Way Is the European Union 'Social'?; 5. The Debt Noose; Debt as a Government Tool A New Conception of 'Sovereignty'Whatever It Takes; A Logic of Political War; 'Debtocracy', or, The Sovereign Power of Creditors; Societies Enslaved to Debt; 6. The Neoliberal Oligarchic Bloc; Agents of Radicalization; Professional Politics and Neoliberal Domination; Systemic Corruption; The Age of Corporate Power; The Osmosis of Banks and Senior Civil Servants; Economic Expertise and the Mediatic Shaping of Reality; The Oligarchic Bloc and the Right-Wing Left; Conclusion: Democracy as Experimenting with the Commons; A Historical Crisis of the Left The Experience of the Commons against ExpertocracyThe Strategy of the Democratic Bloc; Notes; Index
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Verso
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 320.51/3; Neoliberalism; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786634757; 1786634759
• Related ISBNs: 9781786634740
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 26, 2019).
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