Abstract
As offshoots of and reactions to neoliberalism continue to dominate our political imaginary, the scholarly critique of neoliberal thought remains urgent and timely. This article engages with two recent intellectual histories of neoliberalism, Thomas Biebricher’s The Political Theory of Neoliberalism and Quinn Slobodian’s Globalists, both of which serve to re-centre debates surrounding the composition and career of neoliberal thinking. Dealing, respectively, with the most basic theoretical architecture of neoliberalism and neoliberals’ response to the end of Empire, both studies make key contributions to our critical appraisal of the neoliberal present. It will be argued, however, that these books are best read together, as each goes some way towards addressing the other’s analytical limits.
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