Wendy Brown (University of California Berkeley)

Undoing the Demos

Neoliberalism`s Stealth Revolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Undoing the Demos, Wendy Brown explains how democracy itself is imperiled. The demos disintegrates into bits of human capital; concerns with justice bow to the mandates of growth rates, credit ratings, and investment climates; liberty submits to the imperative of human capital appreciation; equality dissolves into market competition; and popular sovereignty grows incoherent. Liberal democratic practices may not survive these transformations. Radical democratic dreams may not either. In an original and compelling argument, Brown explains how and why neoliberal reason undoes the political form and political imaginary it falsely promises to secure and reinvigorate. Through meticulous analyses of neoliberalized law, political practices, governance, and education, she charts the new common sense. Undoing the Demos makes clear that for democracy to have a future, it must become an object of struggle and rethinking.

Produktdetails

• Zone / Near Futures
• Verlag: MIT Press / Zone Books
• Seitenzahl: 295
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 204mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9781935408543
• ISBN-10: 1935408542
• Artikelnr.: 47876676

Autorenporträt

Wendy Brown

Rezensionen

"Political theorist Wendy Brown opens her brilliant and incisive new book, Undoing the Demos, with a clarion call: Western democracy is imperiled. According to Brown, democracy has grown gaunt as a consequence of an ascendant political rationality that, like an ideological autoimmune disorder, has assaulted its very fiber and futureDemocracy is the crux of the issueand by focusing on how it's been diminished Brown has written a book that deserves to be widely read." - Astra Taylor, Bookforum