The Spirit of Philadelphia: Social Justice vs. the Total Market - Hardcover

Supiot, Alain

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844677540 ISBN 13: 9781844677542

Verlag: Verso Books, 2012

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"France's most incisive jurist, Alain Supiot - has renewed the idea that all significant belief-systems require a dogmatic foundation by focusing its beam sharply, to the discomfort of their devotees, on the two most cherished creeds of our time: the cults of the free markets and of human rights." Perry Anderson, London Review of Books "Alain Supiot develops an original and ambitious approach to the place and role of the law for man... a wealth of observations ground his high-calibre reflections, rigorously documented with examples drawn from the legal domain." Etudes "We can only congratulate Alain Supiot for this work, which defends the anthropological function of the law, reminding us that the human being is a metaphysical animal which exists not only in the universe of things (the economic) but also in a universe of signs." Revue trimestrielle de droit civil

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In 1944, the International Labour Organization laid out its "Declaration of Philadelphia," a full-fledged social bill of rights in the same spirit as FDR's State of the Union address of the same year. The welfarist spirit was then at its apex - but Supiot argues that with neoliberalism still rampant, even following the economic crash, the Declaration remains an important baseline. Then as now, social ties had been compromised in favor of market values; now, as then, the law must be reorganized to uphold social values and the spirit of solidarity. Short, punchy and often rousing, The Spirit of Philadelphia describes the worldwide triumph of neoliberalism as once-communist elites turn towards market dogma and the privatization of welfare states. Arguing against the return to social Darwinism, and the bureaucratic embrace of numbers and statistics as ends, Supiot champions the social democratic spirit hoping for its revival in the wake of the recent crash.

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• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1844677540
• ISBN 13: 9781844677542
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160