Abstract
The task of assessing the relevance of emancipatory political action to the neoliberal condition is an important one for two principal reasons: because it has fallen out of favour with several critical social theorists, and because the present-day situation is marked by the cult of the personally responsible individual. In this chapter, it is nevertheless argued that emancipatory action bears relevance to the present day. Elements of its re-conceptualization in the light of politically relevant developments, such as the rise of identity-politics, are also offered.
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I am thinking here of Marx’s treatment of the working class as the “universal class.”
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Masquelier, C. (2017). Emancipatory Political Action Reimagined. In: Critique and Resistance in a Neoliberal Age. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-40194-6_20
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