ISBN:
0231193858
,
9780231193856
,
023119384X
,
9780231193849
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 248 Seiten
Series Statement:
The Wellek Library lectures
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Brown, Wendy, 1955 - In the ruins of neoliberalism
Keywords:
Europa
;
Nordamerika
;
Demokratie
Abstract:
Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values. Is this phenomenon the end of neoliberalism or its monstrous offspring? In the Ruins of Neoliberalism casts the hard-right turn as animated by socioeconomically aggrieved white working- and middle-class populations but contoured by neoliberalism’s multipronged assault on democratic values. From its inception, neoliberalism flirted with authoritarian liberalism as it warred against robust democracy. It repelled social-justice claims through appeals to market freedom and morality. It sought to de-democratize the state, economy, and society and re-secure the patriarchal family. In key works of the founding neoliberal intellectuals, Wendy Brown traces the ambition to replace democratic orders with ones disciplined by markets and traditional morality and democratic states with technocratic ones.
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