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"Wendy Brown diagnoses a crisis of nihilism in the United States, as market ideals displace values of truth and integrity and identity politics encourage a destructive epidemic of victimhood. Taking strength from Max Weber's WWI-era calls for moral courage, Brown aims to renew commitments to basic values of citizenship and public life."--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction: Freedom and the Plastic Cage -- CHAPTER TWO. Postmodern Exposures, Feminist Hesitations -- CHAPTER THREE. Wounded Attachments -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Mirror of Pornography -- CHAPTER FIVE. Rights and Losses -- CHAPTER SIX. Liberalism's Family Values -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Finding the Man in the State -- Index

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.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 INTRODUCTION: Politics Out of History -- 2 SYMPTOMS: Moralism as Anti-Politics -- 3 DESIRE: The Desire to Be Punished: Freud's "'A Child Is Being Beaten'" -- 4 POWER: Power without Logic without Marx -- 5 POLITICS: Politics without Banisters: Genealogical Politics in Nietzsche and Foucault -- 6 DEMOCRACY: Democracy against Itself: Nietzsche's Challenge -- 7 FUTURES: Specters and Angels: Benjamin and Derrida -- Notes -- Index

Discusses the spate of wall-building by countries around the world and considers the reasons why walls are being built in an increasingly globalized world in which threats to security come from sources that cannot be contained by brick and barbed wire.

Contents -- Preface -- Neoliberal Reason and Political Life -- I Undoing Democracy -- II Foucault's Birth of Biopolitics Lectures -- III Revising Foucault -- Disseminating Neoliberal Reason -- IV Political Rationality and Governance -- V Law and Legal Reason -- VI Educating Human Capital -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index

Edgework brings together seven of Wendy Brown's most provocative recent essays in political and cultural theory. They range from explorations of politics post-9/11 to critical reflections on the academic norms governing feminist studies and political theory. Edgework is also concerned with the intellectual and political value of critique itself. It renders contemporary the ancient jurisprudential meaning of critique as krisis, in which a tear in the fabric of justice becomes the occasion of a public sifting or thoughtfulness, the development of criteria for judgment, and the inauguration of p

"Tolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West. Emerging in early modern Europe to defuse violent religious conflict and reduce persecution, tolerance today is hailed as a key to decreasing conflict across a wide range of other dividing lines-- cultural, racial, ethnic, and sexual. But, as political theorist Wendy Brown argues in Regulating Aversion, tolerance also has dark and troubling undercurrents. Dislike, disapproval, and regulation lurk at the heart of tolerance. To tolerate is not to affirm but to conditionally allow what is unwanted or deviant. And, although presented as an alternative to violence, tolerance can play a part in justifying violence--dramatically so in the war in Iraq and the War on Terror. Wielded, especially since 9/11, as a way of distinguishing a civilized West from a barbaric Islam, tolerance is paradoxically underwriting Western imperialism. Brown's analysis of the history and contemporary life of tolerance reveals it in a startlingly unfamiliar guise. Heavy with norms and consolidating the dominance of the powerful, tolerance sustains the abjection of the tolerated and equates the intolerant with the barbaric. Examining the operation of tolerance in contexts as different as the War on Terror, campaigns for gay rights, and the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance, Brown traces the operation of tolerance in contemporary struggles over identity, citizenship, and civilization."

Tolerance as a discourse of depoliticization -- Tolerance as a discourse of power -- Tolerance as supplement: the "Jewish question" and the "woman question" -- Tolerance as governmentality: faltering universalism, state legitimacy, and state violence -- Tolerance as museum object: the Simon Weisenthal Center Museum of Tolerance -- Subjects of tolerance: why we are civilized and they are the barbarians -- Tolerance as/in civilizational discourse

Edgework brings together seven of Wendy Brown's most provocative recent essays in political and cultural theory. They range from explorations of politics post-9/11 to critical reflections on the academic norms governing feminist studies and political theory. Edgework is also concerned with the intellectual and political value of critique itself.

This lecture reflects on the difficulties of democracy in Erik Olin Wright's democratic socialist vision, one he elaborates in How to Be an Anti-capitalist in the 21st Century and Envisioning Real Utopias. It rejects the notion that radical democratic projects in cities, workplaces, and cooperatives can simply be scaled up for purposes of national or postnational political rule. It reflects on selected requirements of democracy apart from democratic governing institutions and practices: from democratic political culture, to education and accountability, to handling globalized powers and problems such as finance, capital, and the climate crisis. The lecture concludes ambivalently, suggesting that democracy may be both necessary and impossible in realizing a politically free, socially just, and ecologically sustainable future.