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.
Neoliberalism's war against democracy and how to resist it How do we explain the strange survival of the forces responsible for the 2008 economic crisis, one of the worst since 1929? How do we explain the fact that neoliberalism has emerged from the crisis strengthened? When it broke, a number of the most prominent economists hastened to announce the 'death' of neoliberalism. They regarded the pursuit of neoliberal policy as the fruit of dogmatism. For Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval, neoliberalism is no mere dogma. Supported by powerful oligarchies, it is a veritable politico-institutional system that obeys a logic of self-reinforcement. Far from representing a break, crisis has become a formidably effective mode of government. In showing how this system crystallized and solidified, the book explains that the neoliberal straitjacket has succeeded in preventing any course correction by progressively deactivating democracy. Increasing the disarray and demobilization, the so-called 'governmental' Left has actively helped strengthen this oligarchical logic. The latter could lead to a definitive exit from democracy in favour of expertocratic governance, free of any control. However, nothing has been decided yet. The revival of democratic activity, which we see emerging in the political movements and experiments of recent years, is a sign that the political confrontation with the neoliberal system and the oligarchical bloc has already begun.
What is new about neoliberalism? Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval contend that it is more than just a new economic paradigm — it is a system for transforming the human subject. Rather than a return to classic liberalism, or the restoration of a ‘pure’, unconstrained market, neoliberalism envisages the modern corporation as a model for government, conjuring a future in which society is nothing other than a web of market-based relations. Cutting through contemporary misunderstandings about its genesis and prevalence, Dardot and Laval distil neoliberalism to its core meaning and examine how it might be challenged on new political and intellectual terms.
« Personne ne voulait de moi, un gamin de dix ans. Un de mes oncles a même dit que s’il fallait me prendre, il me prendrait, mais que je serais placé tout de suite. Placé, à l’époque, cela ne voulait pas dire dans un institut non, mais dans une ferme où j’aurais bossé comme un âne pour une soupe et un lit. Mon père a dû se retourner dans sa tombe à voir ses frères si compatissants. [...] Ce que j’allais vivre dans les jours et les années à venir me marquerait à jamais. » À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR Christian Morisseau a toujours eu un rapport particulier avec les mots pour lesquels il a développé une véritable affection et qui, aujourd’hui, lui servent d’exutoire. Avec "Cavan D767", il signe son deuxième livre.
This illustrated reference work covers a wide range of festivals that have sacred origins and are, or have been, part of a folk tradition, a world religion, or a major civilization. Traditional Festivals: A Multicultural Encyclopedia travels around the world and across the centuries to uncover an often unexpected richness of meaning in some of the major sacred festivals of the world's religions, the hallowed calendars of ancient civilizations, and the seasonal celebrations of tribal cultures. From Akitu to Yom Kippur, its 150+ entries look at the content and context of these festivals from a number of perspectives (including those relating to theology, anthropology, folklore, and social theory), tracing their historical development and variations across cultures. Readers will get a vivid sense of what each festival means to the people celebrating it; how each captures its culture's beliefs, hopes and fears, founding myths, and redemptive visions; and how each expresses the universal need of humans to connect their lives to a timeless spiritual dimension.
The prevailing idea of life and living is that it is not singular. We are all the product of relationships and are made to be relational. First Love is about relationships. It speaks to us about relationships in general most specifically the one given to us as the ultimate in relationships; those with God and in marriage. It is a book about love, and love forsaken and lost. Taken from the thought behind Revelations 2:4, all will benefit from the reading of First Love.
Professor Jolivet is inspired with the Holy Quest of ridding the planet of all imbeciles after he invents an astoundingly practical device. While the old man is trying out his new toy, nothing much seems to happen except Pendleton, soon to be the professor's right hand man, is led to ask himself such profound questions as: why hasn't the Catholic Church elected a new pope for the past 15 years, or, more importantly, why does he have only six dollars in his pocket while he really ought to have eight? It is the search for answers to these interrogations that will lead him to join the Professor in his quest. Together they assemble close to a dozen disciples and set out to achieve the Divine Will. They quickly run into problems, from political scandals to unnaturally fast responses from civil servants. Something fishy is afoot and Jolivet is starting to fear that they are not alone. Acting on the advice of his coffee machine, he sends one of his flock to seek more information, but the envoy meets a man on his journey that challenges some of his most fundamental assumptions. What is really going on? In the meantime, love has flourished between Pendleton and Rose-Anne, the heart of a movement. A love so pure and powerful that it permeates everything and everyone but, strangely, does not seem in total accord with their mission. After the weather gets involved, things eventually resolve themselves, although not exactly as anticipated. Most of the issues are made irrelevant, including the nuclear genocide, and all are left with only one question: why those names?
Bien qu'ils se détestent, les deux frères Kane se retrouvent dans un attrait commun pour la violence dans laquelle baigne notre siècle : Sebastian l'écrivain est le nègre d'un ancien agent secret, Nathan le photographe est hanté par des visions morbides. Lorsque Nathan disparaît en Colombie, Sebastian part à sa recherche et le voilà bientôt entraîné dans une périlleuse aventure, de Bogota jusque dans la jungle tropicale. Guérilla, corruption des hommes politiques et de l'Eglise, trafics en tout genre vont l'accompagner jusqu'au terme d'un voyage où se dévoileront de terribles vérités. A travers ce thriller foisonnant et baroque, c'est le désordre du monde qui vient inquiéter la fiction et la pousser dans ses derniers retranchements.
In this important compendium, one of the leading scholars of EU law and its legal framework, reflects on his previous writings in the context of current challenges the European project is facing. More than a simple restatement, it offers an important theoretical comment at this defining time for EU law. The author offers a welcome counterbalance to what some perceive to be a surfeit of optimism when assessing the EU and its development. In so doing, Professor Joerges identifies three flaws in the current European ideology. Firstly, he points to the intellectual weakness of the “integration through law” ideology. Secondly, the book sets out the systematic neglect of “the economic” and its political dynamics. Finally, it addresses the complacency with respect to Europe's darker legacies. This is an important critical (and candid) assessment of Europe at its half century.
This third, extensively revised edition of The Mammals of the Southern African Subregion contains detailed descriptions of all mammals that occur naturally on the African mainland south of the Cunene and Zambezi rivers, together with all mammals indigenous to the subregion's coastal waters. The rapid accumulation of new information resulting from mammal research in southern Africa, together with radical taxonomic changes across all levels of mammalian classification, have necessitated this new edition, which presents the best and latest data accurately in one comprehensive volume for use not only by scientists but also by an increasingly wide audience of general readers with an interest in the natural history of southern Africa." "J. D. Skinner and C. T. Chimimba have revised, expanded and updated the text in a major project overseen by an editorial committee constituted by the Mammal Research Institute at the University of Pretoria. Specialists on each mammalian order have served as subeditors, and a range of independent and internationally recognised authorities have reviewed every species description." "In this edition all the distribution maps and many of the illustrations of mammal prints have been updated and redrawn, several new colour plates have been added, and the whole design of this definitive reference work has been enhanced to ensure easy access to information."--BOOK JACKET.
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