Undoing the Demos : Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution

Zone Books, USA, 2016. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover. 295 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Zone Books, USA, 2016. Fourth Printing. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in fine condition and comes in near fine dust jacket. More specifically: Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Tracing neoliberalism's devastating erosions of democratic principles, practices, and cultures. Neoliberal rationality - ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, and cultureremakes 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. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Politics & Government; ISBN/EAN: 9781935408536. Inventory No: 24030111.. 9781935408536