作者简介

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).

内容简介

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).

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  • 山人
    The remaking of state and subject06-18
  • 七之丞
    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 12-02
  • Jean-François
    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。01-04
  • Mango
    只读了introduction,后面几页写得真好啊,这什么让人绝望的世界。02-25
  • 暮色·朝阳
    难得给白左点个赞。Judith Butler的老婆有这样的水平她也烂不到哪去吧。。都说Wendy Brown是新马派,但这本书很多地方都是站在人文主义关怀的立场上批判当代资本主义(新自由主义)对社会和人性的戕害。第六章关于liberal arts education的讨论简直把我看哭了。不过有时候所假定的民主目标还是太激进空洞了。另外,作者的政治思想史素养极高,文中对亚里士多德、卢梭、斯密、边沁、密尔、韦伯 等人(还有一点托克维尔)思想概括的文段都极其精辟准确,一点也不偏颇,几乎挑不出毛病来,完全可以摘抄当作备考书啊!福柯的部分我当然都直接跳过了,嘿嘿嘿11-16

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