Neoliberal Techniques of Social Suffering: Political Resistance and Critical Theory from Latin America and Spain - Hardcover

by María Inés Fernández Álvarez (Contribution by), Pablo López Álvarez (Contribution by), Rodrigo Castro Orellana (Contribution by)

Neoliberal Techniques of Social Suffering: Political Resistance and Critical Theory from Latin America and Spain is the result of the critical and political commitment of various Latin American and Spanish philosophers who share a critical approach to the global "stealth revolution" in recent decades, where neoliberalism has forced the well-being and reproduction of life to adapt to a system devastating for both humans and non-humans. The authors voice the shared concern of contemporary Spanish and Latin American societies to build new conceptions of the public and the common through mobilizing affects usually disavowed in political theory. If, in Ancient Greece, the idea of strengthening the most vulnerable and weakest was deplored as the art of sophists, this collection edited by Laura Quintana and Nuria Sánchez Madrid explores the other side of our social world to revive grassroots strategies of resistance and emancipation, which are able to bring about new distributions of power, welfare, and discursive legitimation and to extend our goal of creating a radically democratic world.

Author Biography

Laura Quintana is associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Universidad de Los Andes.

Nuria Sánchez Madrid is associate professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University Complutense of Madrid.