Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution
- W. Brown
- Political Science
- 6 February 2015
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…
Neo-liberalism and the End of Liberal Democracy
- W. Brown
- Political Science
- 6 November 2003
For the American Left, the wake of 9/11, the War on Terrorism, practices of "homeland security," and the recent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq together produce a complex set of questions about…
Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire
- W. Brown
- Sociology
- 20 August 2006
Acknowledgments ix Chapter 1: Tolerance as a Discourse of Depoliticization 1 Chapter 2: Tolerance as a Discourse of Power 25 Chapter 3: Tolerance as Supplement The "Jewish Question" and the "Woman…
Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics
- W. Brown
- Economics
- 2005
Preface vii Chapter One: Untimeliness and Punctuality: Critical Theory in Dark Times 1 Chapter Two: Political Idealization and Its Discontents 17 Chapter Three: Neoliberalism and the End of Liberal…
American Nightmare
- W. Brown
- Political Science
- 1 December 2006
Neoliberalism and neoconservatism are two distinct political rationalities in the contemporary United States. They have few overlapping formal characteristics, and even appear contradictory in many…
States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity
- W. Brown
- Law
- 5 May 2020
Whether in characterizing Catherine MacKinnon's theory of gender as itself pornographic or in identifying liberalism as unable to make good on its promises, this text pursues a central question: how…
Walled States, Waning Sovereignty
- W. Brown
- Political Science
- 3 September 2010
Why do walls marking national boundaries proliferate amid widespread proclamations of global connectedness and despite anticipation of a world without borders? Why are barricades built of concrete,…
Politics Out of History
- W. Brown
- Art, Psychology
- 5 June 2018
Acknowledgment ix 1. INTRODUCTION: Politics Out of History 3 2. SYMPTOMS: Moralism as Anti-Politics 18 3. DESIRE: The Desire to Be Punished: Freud's "'A Child Is Being Beaten'" 45 4. POWER: Power…
"The Most We Can Hope For. . . ": Human Rights and the Politics of Fatalism
- W. Brown
- Political Science
- 10 June 2004
In his 2001 Tanner Lecture series entitled Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry, Michael Ignatieff parries almost every known progressive political and philosophical quarrel with international human…
In the Ruins of Neoliberalism
- W. Brown
- Political Science
- 16 July 2019
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