Undoing the Demos
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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 w...
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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.
Detaljer
Forlag
Zone Books
ISBN
9781935408543
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
296
Udgivelsesdato
24-11-2017
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
3393697
EAN nr.
9781935408543
Varegruppe
Engelsk non fiction div.