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In the Ruins of Neoliberalism - The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West (Hardcover)
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In the Ruins of Neoliberalism - The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West (Hardcover)
Series: The Wellek Library Lectures
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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.
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