Undoing the Demos
neoliberalism's stealth revolution
$48.00
- Hardcover
296 pages
- Release Date
27 May 2015
Summary
Tracing neoliberalism’s devastating erosions of democratic principles, practices, and cultures. 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 Undoing the Demos, Wendy Brown explains how democracy itself is imperiled. The demos disintegrates into …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781935408536 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1935408534 |
| Author: | Wendy Brown |
| Publisher: | Zone Books |
| Imprint: | Zone Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 27 May 2015 |
| Weight: | 500g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 302mm x 160mm |
| Series: | Zone / Near Futures |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
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 future…Democracy is the crux of the issue…and by focusing on how it’s been diminished Brown has written a book that deserves to be widely read.
– Astra Taylor * Bookforum *About The Author
Wendy Brown
Wendy Brown is Class of 1936 First Chair of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is also affiliated with the Department of Rhetoric and the Critical Theory Program and the author of Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution (Zone Books).
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