Varieties of Neoliberalism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11071997 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephanie Glendinning (0000-0002-2312-1839, corresponding author), Simon Glendinning |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 437-461 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-4240 • E-ISSN: 2153-9197 |
| Publisher | Philosophy Documentation Center (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5840/gfpj201536226 |
| OpenAlex | W3125233643 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
The term "neoliberalism" is encountered everywhere today.In popular leftist political rhetoric it is often simply a place-holder for "contemporary capitalism," "austerity politics," and "all that is bad in our world," giving that rhetoric the appearance of a new diagnostic edge.However, one could be excused for thinking that its intelligibility is in inverse proportion to its ubiquity.By defining it in terms of its conceptual relationship with classical liberalism, this paper offers a justification for thinking about our time as a period in which a particular "community of ideas" has sought (with some success) to establish a neoliberal hegemony.Doing so reveals, however, that there are in fact a variety of neoliberalisms, and that the period we now inhabit is best conceived in terms of the rise of a distinctively economic variation.Europe's history is sketched (anachronistically) in terms of shifting patterns and transitions in which neoliberal variants vie for power.Setting those transitions within a wide-angled vision of Europe's modernity as inseparable from a movement of the decentering of our understanding of "man," the chance for a new shift is identifiedone to be accompanied, no doubt, by "a surge of laughter" that has been heard, regularly and without fail, throughout the entirety of Europe's history.[AQ: It is not our practice to have abstracts; would you like to keep this text as an introduction or delete?] Liberal ManIn a lecture delivered in Prague in 1935, the German philosopher Edmund Husserl introduced a worry he felt regarding what he called "the total world-view of modern man." 3 That world-view was one that, he thought, constituted a "turning-away from the questions which are decisive for a 1
Contemporary philosophy · Continental philosophy · Epistemology · History of philosophy · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Sociology · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |