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2026
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18355277 |
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- <p>Building on the philosophical synergy between postliberalism and Gianni Vattimo’s <br>weak thought outlined in Postliberalism and Weak Thought (2025), this essay extends <br>the analysis into the economic domain. While postliberal thinkers like Patrick J. <br>Deneen diagnose liberalism’s triumph as eroding organic community bonds through <br>market and state dominance—fueling isolation, precarity, and populist resentment—<br>top-down postliberal remedies risk reproducing the very metaphysical impositions <br>they critique. This piece proposes a left postliberalism: a non-authoritarian <br>alternative that incorporates Vattimo’s hermeneutic, pious weakening of institutional <br>tutelage (pietas) to enable bottom-up self-organization. Universal basic income (UBI), <br>framed as Guy Standing’s “common dividends” from plundered commons and <br>justified by Philippe Van Parijs’s luck-egalitarian rationale, serves as the practical <br>economic instrument: it neutralizes market coercion without moralistic state <br>paternalism, freeing time and resources for voluntary commoning—cooperatives, <br>mutual aid, and local solidarity—thus allowing the common good to emerge <br>organically and pluralistically.</p>