Common Ground Democracy And Collectivity In An Age Of Individualism

A serious and courageous engagement with the deepest issue of our time. Humanity cannot go on as we are, but how do we change course? Gilbert starts to build a strategy from the wreckage. -- Anthony Barnett, founder of openDemocracy We live in an interregnum. The old is not yet dead and the new is yet to be born. No one understand this moment better than Jeremy Gilbert. -- Neal Lawson, Chair for Compass The questions that this book sets out to answer couldn't be more pressing. What are the roots of the endemic individualism that dominates contemporary culture? How can we overcome this psychic privatisation and revive - and ultimately radicalise - democracy? Gilbert offers fresh readings of theorists such as Hobbes, Lazzarato, Deleuze and Guattari. Common Ground should be required reading for anyone interested in the current crisis of democracy. -- Mark Fisher, Goldsmiths