In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West

Wendy Brown

Published by Columbia University Press 2019

In the Ruins of Neoliberalism

The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West

Wendy Brown

In the series The Wellek Library Lectures

https://doi.org/10.7312/brow19384

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Wendy Brown explains the hard-right turn in Western politics. She argues that neoliberalism’s intensification of nihilism coupled with its accidental wounding of white male supremacy generates an apocalyptic populism willing to destroy the world rather than endure a future in which this supremacy disappears.

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Brown Wendy :

Wendy Brown (PhD, Political Philosophy, Princeton) is Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution (Zone, 2015), Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (Zone, 2010), and Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Empire and Identity (Princeton, 2006) and coauthor (with Rainer Forst) of The Power of Tolerance (Columbia, 2014), among a number of other titles. Her interests include political theory, critical theory, continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, democratic theory, capitalism, and neoliberalism.Wendy Brown is Class of 1936 First Chair at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches political theory. Her recent books include Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (2015) and Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (2010).

Reviews

Nicholas Xenos, Director of the Amherst Program in Critical Theory:
Brown attends to the perceived puzzles of neoliberalism that have baffled other analysts and solves them outright. In the Ruins of Neoliberalism offers a complete rethinking of our current political reality.

Étienne Balibar, author of Secularism and Cosmopolitanism:
In her fascinating book, Wendy Brown demonstrates that neoliberal rationality, more than merely economistic in spirit, also contains a reactionary moralism. The two elements dovetail in curtailing every form of equality. This has devastating effects, as we can observe in the world from Trump to Bolsonaro to Erdogan.

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Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Society Must Be Dismantled Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
2. Politics Must Be Dethroned Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
3. The Personal, Protected Sphere Must Be Extended Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
4. Speaking Wedding Cakes and Praying Pregnancy Centers: Religious Liberty and Free Speech in Neoliberal Jurisprudence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
5. No Future for White Men: Nihilism, Fatalism, and Ressentiment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
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Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

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Published: July 22, 2019
ISBN: 9780231550536