The Neoliberal Subject Resilience, Adaptation and Vulnerability [Paperback]

Should you read this book? Absolutely. Its an invaluable discussion of how immanence and government coincide in our Janus-faced present, a trenchant analysis of liberal resilience modes of government and what they demand of our souls, and is a confident expression of what a new, destituted humanism could be.?This fantastic book is centred on debates about how people understand themselves and their relations to the world. The back and forth discussion gets to the heart of current issues like resilience  with its doubtful, vulnerable and dependent subjects. At a time when the liberal subject appears shrunk and degraded, this timely debate somehow tries to find hope that there are more creative and fulfilling alternatives.The Neoliberal Subject offers a timely and trenchant dialogue on neoliberalism from two of the worlds most incisive critical international relations theorists. It adds immeasurable depth to the debate on neoliberalism, revealing its resonance with the widely popular categories of vulnerability, resilience and adaptation. A must read for any serious reader of contemporary precariousness and the political economies of risk and global environmental change.This most unusual of books stands united against the enemy of the diminished subject of neoliberalism found in the apologias of resilience and adaptation. Its authors however engage in a friendly but spirited rivalry over the origins of this subject and the alternatives to it. The result is an important radical debate on the potentials and risks of contemporary political reason and imagination.[T]he book provides an important and fascinating excursion into the largely neglected concepts of resilience, adaptation, and vulnerability in neoliberal regimes, international relations theory, and philosophy.Passionate and provocative, this book sets up a dialogue between its two authors to critique the contemporary nature of neoliberalism.Political practices, agencies and institutions around the world promlC.