Undoing the Demos (eBook)

Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution

Wendy Brown (Autor)

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2015
Zone Books (Verlag)
978-1-935408-69-7 (ISBN)

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Neoliberal rationality - ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, and culture - remakes everything and everyone in the image of homo oeconomicus. What happens when this rationality transposes the constituent elements of democracy into an economic register? In vivid detail, Wendy Brown explains how democracy itself is imperiled.The demos disintegrates into bits of human capital; concerns with justice cede 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 theoretical 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, far from being the lodestar of the twenty-first century, a future for democracy depends upon it becoming an object of struggle and rethinking.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.3.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Near Futures
• Reihe/Serie: Near Future Series
• Reihe/Serie: Near Future Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: activism • Aftermath of World War II • Anarcho-capitalism • Anti-globalization movement • Business Ethics • Capitalism • centrism • Citizens (Spanish political party) • Classical Liberalism • Common Good • Comparative Advantage • Competition (economics) • Corporate Media • Criticisms of Marxism • cultural liberalism • curtailment • Deliberation • democratic ideals • Democratic Socialism • despotism • Devolution • economic liberalism • Economic Power • Economic Rent • Economics • economy • End of History • Equal Opportunity • freedom of speech • Freiburg school • Friedrich Naumann • Golden Parachute • Governance • Governmentality • Griftopia • Hard Power • hollowing out • Homo economicus • Human Capital • Institutional Economics • Insurgency • Internship • Inverted totalitarianism • invisible Hand • iron cage • John Rawls • liberal democracy • Liberalism • Marketization • mercantilism • Minarchism • mission creep • Modernity • Narcissism • Nationalization • Need-blind admission • Neoliberalism • Nonprofit Organization • north–south divide • One-Dimensional Man • Political Correctness • Political Economy • Political Freedom • Political Liberalism • Political Man • Political Philosophy • political revolution • Politics • popular sovereignty • posthumanism • Pragmatism • Profession • Public sphere • Public university • radical feminism • Rationality • Rationalization (sociology) • Realpolitik • Rule of Law • Self-Interest • Self-ownership • Social Contract • Social Democracy • social liberalism • Soft Power • Sovereignty • State of nature • state socialism • Statism • Structural adjustment • Subsidy • Subversion • Superiority (short story) • Tax • The Price of Inequality • The Social Contract • The Sovereign State • Too big to fail • Two Treatises of Government • use value
• ISBN-10: 1-935408-69-0 / 1935408690
• ISBN-13: 978-1-935408-69-7 / 9781935408697