The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society

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This powerful account of neoliberalism as a type of government by major French theorists Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval explores the genesis of neoliberalism—and the political and economic circumstances of its deployment—and dispels a large number of common misconceptions about it.

Dardot and Laval argue that neoliberalism is neither a return to classical liberalism nor the restoration of “pure” capitalism and show that to misinterpret neoliberalism is to fail to be mindful what is new about it: a ways from viewing the market as a natural for the reason that limits state action, neoliberalism seeks to construct the market and use it as a model for governments. Only once this idea is grasped will the opponents of neoliberalism be capable of meet the unprecedented political and intellectual challenge it poses.

Historian and philosopher Philip Mirowski calls The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society “the most productive brand new realization of Foucault’s pioneering option to the history of neoliberalism.” The Los Angeles Review of Books calls the book “erudite and provocative.”

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