TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Wendy
TI  - In the ruins of neoliberalism: the rise of antidemocratic politics in the West 
T2  - Wellek Library Lectures
SN  - 9780231550536
AV  - JC423 .B83 2019
U1  - 306.209182/1 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Western countries
KW  - Neoliberalism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Right-wing extremists
KW  - Populism
KW  - Right and left (Political science)
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Néo-libéralisme
KW  - Aspect politique
KW  - Occident
KW  - Extrémistes de droite
KW  - Populisme
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Political
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-228) and index; 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
N2  - 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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