Undoing the Demos - Neoliberalism`s Stealth Revolution Brown Wendy Paperback
Undoing the Demos - Neoliberalism`s Stealth Revolution Brown Wendy Paperback Tracing neoliberalism's devastating erosions of democratic principles, practices, and cultures.Neoliberal…
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Undoing the Demos - Neoliberalism`s Stealth Revolution Brown Wendy Paperback
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. In Undoing the Demos, Wendy Brown explains how democracy itself is imperiled. What happens when this rationality transposes the constituent elements of democracy into an economic register?
Liberal democratic practices may not survive these transformations. 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. Radical democratic dreams may