The possibility that a critical approach is grounded in what it critically approaches is indeed a paradox only a few would acknowledge, and certainly not as loudly as Derrida once did: “we can pronounce not a single destructive proposition which has not already had to slip into the form, the logic, and the postulations of precisely what it seeks to contest.” Likewise, The Neoliberal Subject: Resilience, Adaptation and Vulnerability, by David Chandler and Julian Reid, embodies a far less loud but nevertheless remarkable way of coming to terms with its own groundedness in what, otherwise, could be deemed a comfortably out-there object of criticism.