Rebellion was in the air. Workers were on strike, students were demonstrating on campuses, discipline was breaking down. No relation of domination was left untouched – the relation between the sexes, the racial order, the hierarchies of class, relationships in families, workplaces and colleges. The upheavals of the late 1960s and early 1970s quickly spread through all sectors of social and economic life, threatening to make society ungovernable in the eyes of ruling elites. This crisis was also the birthplace of the authoritarian liberalism which continues to cast its shadow across the world in which we now live.<br /> <br /> To ward off the threat, new arts of government were devised in business-related circles, which included a war against the trade unions, the primacy of shareholder value and a dethroning of politics. The neoliberalism that thus began its triumphal march was not, however, determined by a simple ‘state phobia’ and a desire to free up the economy from government interference. On the contrary, the strategy for overcoming the crisis of governability consisted in an authoritarian liberalism in which the liberalization of society went hand-in-hand with new forms of power imposed from above: a ‘strong state’ for a ‘free economy’ became the new magic formula of our capitalist societies.<br /> <br /> Grégoire Chamayou analyses this crisis as it was perceived and theorized in the 1970s by those who strove to defend the interests of business – that is, the ruling elites, especially in the United States, from which a far-reaching intellectual and political movement spread. The new arts of government they devised are still with us today and we can understand their nature and lasting influence only by re-examining the history of the conflicts that brought them into being.
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Grégoire Chamayou. The Ungovernable Society
CONTENTS
Guide
List of Illustrations
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The Ungovernable Society. A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
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1 INDISCIPLINE ON THE SHOP FLOOR
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2 HUMAN RESOURCES
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3 SOCIAL INSECURITY
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4 WAR ON THE UNIONS
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5 A THEOLOGICAL CRISIS
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6 ETHICAL MANAGERIALISM
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7 DISCIPLINING THE MANAGERS
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8 CATALLARCHY
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9 PRIVATE GOVERNMENT UNDER SIEGE
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10 THE BATTLE OF IDEAS
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11 HOW TO REACT?
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12 THE CORPORATION DOES NOT EXIST
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13 POLICE THEORIES OF THE FIRM
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14 CORPORATE COUNTER-ACTIVISM
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15 THE PRODUCTION OF THE DOMINANT DIALOGY
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16 ISSUE MANAGEMENT
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17 STAKEHOLDERS
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18 SOFT LAW
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19 COSTS/BENEFITS
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20 A CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL ECOLOGY
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21 MAKING PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE
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22 THE CRISIS OF GOVERNABILITY OF THE DEMOCRACIES
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23 HAYEK IN CHILE
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24 THE SOURCES OF AUTHORITARIAN LIBERALISM
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25 DETHRONING POLITICS
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26 THE MICROPOLITICS OF PRIVATIZATION
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CONCLUSION
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Grégoire Chamayou
Translated by Andrew Brown
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In addition to the issues that are still with us and that will emerge over the course of this book, my choice of topic was motivated by a more specific preoccupation. At the very time when big business is one of the dominant institutions of the contemporary world, philosophy remains under-equipped to understand it. From its traditional corpus, it has mostly inherited theories of state power and sovereignty dating back to the seventeenth century. It has long had its treatises on theologico-political authorities – but nothing of the kind for what we might call ‘corporato-political’ authorities.
When philosophy finally approaches this subject, for example by belatedly incorporating it into its teaching, this often happens in the worst possible way, by regurgitating a naive discourse on business ethics or corporate social responsibility, of the kind produced in business schools. Philosophy these days is no longer the handmaid of theology, but of management.
