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Description of  Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Rights: Towards a Critique of Neoliberal Reason (Contributions to Political Science)

3031614666 pdf The book sheds light on the forms of neoliberalisms political rationality by highlighting the theoretical foundations upon which they are built. It relies on Foucaults account of neoliberal reason in terms of a governmental rationality encompassing all aspects of human life, as well as Critical Theorys methodology. The book discloses the tensions and antinomies between the concepts neoliberalism resorts to for its own moral and theoretical justification and the historical forms of its realization. By combining the rigor of the normative principles of political philosophy with contemporary historical material, the book shows how neoliberalism realizes itself by negating liberty in its own name, undermining democracy, and annulling rights via their transformation into the morals of the new global market. The core argument permeating the book is that crises are the very condition of neoliberalisms existence. It states that, paradoxically enough, neoliberalism is facing the crises it itself produces by touching off new ones. Read more