UCLA

Geoff Mann makes a strong case for continuities within European thought, stretching from Keynes back to Hegel, with respect to questions of the state, economy and civil society. His reflections on their implications for radical academic practices are well-taken. His focus on deepening the temporality of Keynesian thinking does not attend, however, to the nature and limits of the spatio-temporality of this trajectory of knowledge production. Opening up these questions, provincializing Keynes (and Hegel), creates space to countenance the possibility of state and civil society imaginaries and practices that exceed the Hegel–Keynes–Mann trajectory, including those of radical geographers.