The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born

The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond

Author	Nancy Fraser
Language	English
Published	2019
Publisher	Verso Books
ISBN	9781788732727
Website	Verso website

The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond is a 2019 nonfiction book by American author Nancy Fraser, published by Verso Books.

The book casts the contemporary political landscape as not just an economic system, but economics wedded to authority, the result of a "worldview ... that wedded a progressive politics of recognition with a neoliberal political economy". ^[1] It provides an "assessment of hegemonic and counterhegemonic blocs", ^[2] and provides arguments and evidence that challenge the "assumption that expertise is inseparable from objectivity". ^[3] According to the work, 21st-century authoritarianism in America "is borne from fractured nexus of distribution and recognition on which the authority of the established political classes and political parties has been built". ^[4] According to the author, the election of Donald Trump as United States President in 2016 indicates the end of the "'progressive-neoliberal' hegemonic order". ^[1]

The title is a quote of Antonio Gramsci, ^[5] and refers to his theory of cultural hegemony. ^[1]

References

Footnotes

1. Rollmann 2019.
2. Saas 2019.
3. Saltman 2021.
4. MacLeavy 2019.
5. "Antonio Gramsci 1891–1937, Italian political theorist and activist", Oxford Reference , Oxford University Press, retrieved May 15, 2023, The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. – in 1930, Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1971)

Sources

• Rollmann, Hans (May 31, 2019), "Is Progressive-Populism Our Best Option in These Troubled Times?", PopMatters
• Saas, William O. (2019), "Building Capacity with Money on the Left", Liminalities , 15 (3), Tampa: 1–9
• Saltman, Kenneth J. (2021), "Education, New Technology, And The Paranoid Politics Of Disinterested Objectivity", Symploke, 29 (1/2): 143–162, 785, doi:10.1353/sym.2021.0008, S2CID   244719888
• MacLeavy, Julie (August 2019), "Neoliberalism and the new political crisis in the west", Ephemera, 19 (3): 627–640

Further reading

• Fraser, Nancy (Winter 2017), "From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump—and Beyond", American Affairs , vol. I, no. 4, Absent a secure hegemony, we face an unstable interregnum and the continuation of the political crisis. In this situation, the words of Antonio Gramsci ring true: "the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."
• Martínez, Josefina L. (November 13, 2021), "Un contrapunto con Nancy Fraser sobre la contrahegemonía y el feminismo del 99%" [contrapunto with Nancy Fraser: counter-hegemony and the feminism of the 99%], La Izquierda Diario (in Spanish) (English translation by Nathaniel Flakin at Left Voice magazine)

External links

• The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born at The StoryGraph
• Red May: Nancy Fraser and Bhaskar Sunkara, The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born Town Hall Seattle audio duration 1h 34m (May 10, 2019)