Title In the ruins of neoliberalism : the rise of antidemocratic politics in the West / Wendy Brown

Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 248 pages) Series Wellek Library Lectures Wellek Library lecture series at the University of California, Irvine. Contents Introduction -- Society must be dismantled -- Politics must be dethroned -- The personal, protected sphere must be extended -- Speaking wedding cakes and praying pregnancy centers : religious liberty and free speech in neoliberal jurisprudence -- No future for white men : nihilism, fatalism, and ressentiment 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-228) and index Notes In English Description based on print version record Subject Democracy -- Social aspects -- Western countries Neoliberalism -- Political aspects -- Western countries Right-wing extremists -- Western countries Populism -- Western countries Right and left (Political science) -- Western countries Political culture -- Western countries POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. PHILOSOPHY -- Political. Democracy -- Social aspects Political culture Populism Right and left (Political science) Right-wing extremists Western countries Form Electronic book LC no. 2018060444 ISBN 9780231550536 0231550537

Other Titles Rise of antidemocratic politics in the West

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