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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 bits of human capital; concerns with justice bow 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 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 for democracy to have a future, it must become an object of struggle and rethinking.

Wendy Brown is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Politics Out of History and States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity (both Princeton).

山人

06-18

The remaking of state and subject

七之丞

12-02

Neoliberalism prevailing as a political rationality means economization of the social and the political and the expansion of homo oeconomicus at the expense of homo politicus

Jean-François

01-04

提出的问题比答案多，虽然很多论述都眼熟，批判眼光和问题意识犀利坦率没得说。而且WB语言根本没有别人说的枯燥干涩，算是political theory里面很通晓顺畅的了。只不过对于neoliberalism到底是不是一种normative rationality，我还是持保留意见。