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Two questions framed the seminar series that formed the basis for this collection: How is success experienced through the neoliberal life cycle? What accommodations are required in order to be successful, and what resistances are identified as necessary to sustain other ways of living well? Looking over the interdisciplinary range of papers presented in this volume reminds us that, just as neoliberalism is pervasive and tenacious, so must be the critique and the seeking of alternatives. Here we reflect on the opportunities to address Wendy Larner’s caution that focusing on a restricted conception of neoliberalism may result in a limited ability to envisage better alternatives that an interdisciplinary and inter-professional conversation offers.
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In this work , the editors have agreed that this should be pronounced throughout as ‘hegemony’ rather than ‘hegemony.’
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‘What were we doing when we unchained this earth from its sun? Where is it moving to now? Where are we moving to? Away from all suns? Are we not continually falling? And backwards, sidewards, forwards, in all directions? Is there still an up and a down? Aren’t we straying as though through an infinite nothing?’ (Nietzsche [1887] 2001, p. 120).
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For an edited collection of a variety of different ways of conceptualising the human, see Clack and Hower (2018).
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A classic example of this way of framing human being is found in Aristotle and in the philosophical schools of the Ancient world that followed his example: see Nussbaum (2004).
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Clack, B., Paule, M. (2019). Afterword: Advice for a Life Beyond Neoliberalism?. In: Clack, B., Paule, M. (eds) Interrogating the Neoliberal Lifecycle. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00770-6_12
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