Pierre Dardot est philosophe et chercheur à l'université Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-La-Défense.
Christian Laval est professeur émérite de sociologie à l’université Paris-Nanterre.
How can you explain the insolent victory of the very forces responsible for the 2008 financial crisis, one of the worst since 1929? How do you explain that, in spite of the chaos it generated and the disasters yet to come from it, neoliberalism came out of the crisis stronger than ever? Dardot and Laval believe that neoliberalism is in no way a theory that in any way “faltered”: it is a veritable way of governing societies and moving them beyond democracy.
This book shows how the system has become stronger by explaining how neoliberalism locks us into a system where we are unable to self-correct our trajectory by deactivating the democratic process.
The authors of Commun see the resurgence of democratic political activity over the past few years as a sign that the political battle with the neoliberal system has already begun.
Pierre Dardot, is a philosopher and teacher, researching Marx and Hegel.
Christian Laval is a professor of sociology at University Paris-Ouest Nanterre-La Défense and the author of L’Homme économique (Gallimard, 2007).
Together, they published with La Découverte: Sauver Marx ? (2007), La Nouvelle Raison du monde (2009) and Commun (2014).