Undoing the demos : neoliberalism's stealth revolution /
Wendy Brown.
- First paperback edition
- 292 pages ; 22 cm
- Near futures .
- Near futures .
"Sixth printing 2020, this edition corrects errors in previous printings"
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Neoliberal reason and political life. Undoing democracy : neoliberalism's remaking of state and subject Foucault's Birth of biopolitics lectures : charting neoliberal political rationality Revising Foucault : Homo politicus and Homo oeconomicus Disseminating neoliberal reason. Political rationality and governance Law and legal reason Educating human capital Epilogue : losing bare democracy and the inversion of freedom into sacrifice Notes Index
This is a book for the age of resistance, for the occupiers of the squares, for the generation of Occupy Wall Street. The premier radical political philosopher of our time offers a devastating critique of the way neoliberalism has hollowed out democracy