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In *Geontologies* Elizabeth A. Povinelli continues her project of mapping the current conditions of late liberalism by offering a bold retheorization of power. Finding Foucauldian biopolitics unable to adequately reveal contemporary mechanisms of power and governance, Povinelli describes a mode of power she calls geontopower, which operates through the regulation of the distinction between Life and Nonlife and the figures of the Desert, the Animist, and the Virus. Geontologies examines this formation of power from the perspective of Indigenous Australian maneuvers against the settler state. And it probes how our contemporary critical languages — anthropogenic climate change, plasticity, new materialism, antinormativity — often unwittingly transform their struggles against geontopower into a deeper entwinement within it. A woman who became a river, a snakelike entity who spawns the fog, plesiosaurus fossils and vast networks of rock weirs: in asking how these different forms of existence refuse incorporation into the vocabularies of Western theory Povinelli provides a revelatory new way to understand a form of power long self-evident in certain regimes of settler late liberalism but now becoming visible much further beyond.

Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- ontology [metaphysics] --- liberalism

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There is an enduring assumption that the French have never been and will never be liberal. As with all clichés, this contains a grain of truth, but it also overlooks an important school of thought that has been a constant presence in French intellectual and political culture for nearly three centuries: French political liberalism. In this collaborative volume, a distinguished group of philosophers, political theorists and intellectual historians uncover this unjustly neglected tradition. The chapters examine the nature and distinctiveness of French liberalism, providing a comprehensive treatment of major themes including French liberalism's relationship with republicanism, Protestantism, utilitarianism and the human rights tradition. Individual chapters are devoted to Montesquieu, Tocqueville, Aron, Lefort and Gauchet, as well as to some lesser known, yet important thinkers, including several political economists and French-style 'neoliberals'. French Liberalism from Montesquieu to the Present Day is essential reading for all those interested in the history of political thought.

History of France --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1999 --- Liberalism --- History --- History. --- France --- Arts and Humanities --- Libéralisme --- Liberalism. --- Histoire --- France.

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This extended essay by one of the world's leading historians seeks, in its first part, to excavate, and to vindicate, the neo-Roman theory of free citizens and free states as it developed in early-modern Britain. This analysis leads on to a powerful defence of the nature, purposes and goals of intellectual history and the history of ideas. As Quentin Skinner says, 'the intellectual historian can help us to appreciate how far the values embodied in our present way of life, and our present ways of thinking about those values, reflect a series of choices made at different times between different possible worlds'. This essay thus provides one of the most substantial statements yet made about the importance, relevance and potential excitement of this form of historical enquiry. Liberty before Liberalism is based on Quentin Skinner's Inaugural Lecture as Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge, delivered in November 1997. Professor Skinner has been awarded the Balzan Prize Life Time Achievement Award for Political Thought, History and Theory. Full details of this award can be found at http://www.balzan.it/News_eng.aspx?ID=2474

Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- History of philosophy --- anno 1500-1799 --- Liberalism --- Liberty --- Civil liberty --- Emancipation --- Freedom --- Liberation --- Personal liberty --- Democracy --- Natural law --- Political science --- Equality --- Libertarianism --- Social control --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Social sciences --- Liberalism. --- Liberty. --- Libéralisme --- Liberté --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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After 30 years of projects, aid disbursement, technical assistance, and conditionality, this book maps out the extent to which African states have cleaved to neoliberal directives. It suggests that neoliberal 'progress' in Africa is notably limited in spite of the resources behind it and the lack of alternatives to it.

Economic order --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Sub-Saharan Africa --- Neoliberalism --- Globalization --- Africa --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- Politics and government --- AFR / Africa - Afrika - Afrique --- 330.52 --- 338.313 --- 338.340 --- 331.33 --- Liberaal systeem. Neo-liberalisme. Theorie van de onderhandeling. --- Kapitalisme. --- Algemene ontwikkeling in de Derde Wereld. --- Structureel beleid. Reglementering. Dereglementering. Ordnungspolitik. --- Neo-liberalism --- Liberalism --- Liberaal systeem. Neo-liberalisme. Theorie van de onderhandeling --- Structureel beleid. Reglementering. Dereglementering. Ordnungspolitik --- Kapitalisme --- Algemene ontwikkeling in de Derde Wereld --- Neoliberalism - Africa --- Globalization - Africa --- Africa - Economic conditions - 1960 --- -Africa - Social conditions - 1960 --- -Africa - Politics and government - 1960 --- -Globalization --- -Neoliberalism - Africa --- Social engineering