The Resource In the ruins of neoliberalism : the rise of antidemocratic politics in the West, Wendy Brown
In the ruins of neoliberalism : the rise of antidemocratic politics in the West, Wendy Brown
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- Summary
- 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. Yet plutocracy, white supremacy, politicized mass affect, indifference to truth, and extreme social disinhibition were no part of the neoliberal vision. Brown theorizes their unintentional spurring by neoliberal reason, from its attack on the value of society and its fetish of individual freedom to its legitimation of inequality. Above all, she argues, 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. --
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- viii, 248 pages
- Contents
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- Society must be dismantled : neoliberalism's critique of the social
- "Politics must be dethroned"
- The personal, protected sphere must be expanded
- Speaking wedding cakes and whispering crisis pregnancy centers
- No future for white men : nihilism, fatalism and ressentiment
- Isbn
- 9780231193849
- Label
- In the ruins of neoliberalism : the rise of antidemocratic politics in the West
- Title
- In the ruins of neoliberalism
- Title remainder
- the rise of antidemocratic politics in the West
- Statement of responsibility
- Wendy Brown
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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. Yet plutocracy, white supremacy, politicized mass affect, indifference to truth, and extreme social disinhibition were no part of the neoliberal vision. Brown theorizes their unintentional spurring by neoliberal reason, from its attack on the value of society and its fetish of individual freedom to its legitimation of inequality. Above all, she argues, 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
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Wellek Library lectures
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Democracy
- Neoliberalism
- Right-wing extremists
- Populism
- Right and left (Political science)
- Political culture
- Label
- In the ruins of neoliberalism : the rise of antidemocratic politics in the West, Wendy Brown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Society must be dismantled : neoliberalism's critique of the social -- "Politics must be dethroned" -- The personal, protected sphere must be expanded -- Speaking wedding cakes and whispering crisis pregnancy centers -- No future for white men : nihilism, fatalism and ressentiment
- Control code
- on1069698942
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- viii, 248 pages
- Isbn
- 9780231193849
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1069698942
- Label
- In the ruins of neoliberalism : the rise of antidemocratic politics in the West, Wendy Brown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Society must be dismantled : neoliberalism's critique of the social -- "Politics must be dethroned" -- The personal, protected sphere must be expanded -- Speaking wedding cakes and whispering crisis pregnancy centers -- No future for white men : nihilism, fatalism and ressentiment
- Control code
- on1069698942
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- viii, 248 pages
- Isbn
- 9780231193849
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1069698942
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