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Death and dying in ‘Third Way’ death manuals: Shaping life and death after neoliberalism

Abstract

In this chapter, I consider what might be called the “Third Way” death manuals of Philip Gould and Kate Gross, who were both, in different ways, involved with the New Labour Project. Their memoirs describe their experiences of dying and are notable for the conclusions to which they come; conclusions which suggest values at odds with the individualist and progressive narratives that shape neoliberal views of what it means to life well. In considering the tensions and possibilities that shape their respective narratives, new ways of living in the face of death become possible.

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Authors

Clack, Beverley J.

Oxford Brookes departments

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences\Department of History, Philosophy and Culture

Dates

Year of publication: 2018
Date of RADAR deposit: 2018-12-20



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This RADAR resource is the Accepted Manuscript of Death and dying in ‘Third Way’ death manuals: Shaping life and death after neoliberalism
This RADAR resource is Part of Interrogating the neoliberal lifecycle: The limits of success [ISBN: 9783030007690] / edited by Beverley Clack and Michele Paule (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

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