Common Ground is an innovative exploration of the philosophical relationship
between collectivity, individuality, affect and agency in the neoliberal era.
Jeremy Gilbert argues that individualism is forced upon us by neoliberal
culture, fatally limiting our capacity to escape the current crisis of
democratic politics.The book asks how forces and ideas opposed to neoliberal
hegemony, and to the individualist tradition in Western thought, might serve to
protect some idea of communality, and how far we must accept assumptions about
the nature of individuality and collectivity which are the legacy of an elitist
tradition. Along the way it examines different ideas and practices of
collectivity, from conservative notions of a