Common - On Revolution in the 21st Century

Around 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 common. In 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.Instead 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 commoning 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 revolution .>

About the author

Matthew MacLellan is an Adjunct Professor of Political Studies at Mount Saint Vincent University, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is the translator of Common: On Revolution in the 21st Century by Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval.Imre Szeman is Director of the Institute for Environment, Conservation and Sustainability and Professor of Human Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada

Product details

• Authors: Pierre Dardot, Pierre (Independent Scholar Dardot, Dardot Pierre, Christian Laval, Christian (Paris Nanterre University Laval
• Assisted by: Imre Szeman (Foreword), Matthew MacLellan (Translation), Matthew (Mount Saint Vincent University MacLellan (Translation)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781474238601
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-3860-1
• No. of pages: 496
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, LAW / Natural Law, Political activism, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Economic theory & philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Economic theory and philosophy, Political activism / Political engagement