Pierre Dardot is a philosopher specialising in Hegel and Marx. He is co-author of The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society (with Christian Laval).Christian Laval is Professor of Sociology at l'université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France.

If we accept the authors’ repeated contention that our present and future are profoundly bleak, we must equally recognize that a new way of engaging our present and future in common is required. This new way of engaging is precisely what Dardot and Laval offer under the name the common—the political principle that informs the collaborative, deliberative activity whereby new customs and institutions may be formed to transcend the social and political conditions threatening humanity and our world itself.

• Introduction:The Common: A Political PrincipleChapter 1: Archaeology of the Common PART 1: The Emergence of the CommonChapter 2: The Communist Burden; or Communism Against the CommonChapter 3: The Great Appropriation and the Return of the “Commons”Chapter 4: Critiquing the Political Economy of the CommonsChapter 5: Common, Rents, and CapitalPART 2: Law and Institution of the CommonChapter 6: The Law of Property and the Unappropriable Chapter 7: Law of the Common and “Common Law”Chapter 8: The “Customary Law of Poverty”Chapter 9: The Workers’ Common: Between Custom and InstitutionChapter 10: Instituent PraxisPART 3: Nine Political Propositions Postscript on the Revolution of the 21st CenturyIndex

Pierre Dardot is a philosopher specialising in Hegel and Marx. He is co-author of The New Way of the World: On Neoliberal Society (with Christian Laval).Christian Laval is Professor of Sociology at l'université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France.

If we accept the authors’ repeated contention that our present and future are profoundly bleak, we must equally recognize that a new way of engaging our present and future in common is required. This new way of engaging is precisely what Dardot and Laval offer under the name the common—the political principle that informs the collaborative, deliberative activity whereby new customs and institutions may be formed to transcend the social and political conditions threatening humanity and our world itself.

• Introduction:The Common: A Political PrincipleChapter 1: Archaeology of the Common PART 1: The Emergence of the CommonChapter 2: The Communist Burden; or Communism Against the CommonChapter 3: The Great Appropriation and the Return of the “Commons”Chapter 4: Critiquing the Political Economy of the CommonsChapter 5: Common, Rents, and CapitalPART 2: Law and Institution of the CommonChapter 6: The Law of Property and the Unappropriable Chapter 7: Law of the Common and “Common Law”Chapter 8: The “Customary Law of Poverty”Chapter 9: The Workers’ Common: Between Custom and InstitutionChapter 10: Instituent PraxisPART 3: Nine Political Propositions Postscript on the Revolution of the 21st CenturyIndex