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In the ruins of neoliberalism : the rise of antidemocratic politics in the West / Wendy Brown.

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 socioeconom...

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Main Author: Brown, Wendy, 1955- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]
Series:Wellek Library lecture series at the University of California, Irvine.
Subjects:
Democracy > Social aspects > Western countries.
Neoliberalism > Political aspects > Western countries.
Right-wing extremists > Western countries.
Populism > Western countries.
Right and left (Political science) > Western countries.
Political culture > Western countries.
Democracy > Social aspects.
Political culture.
Populism.
Right and left (Political science)
Right-wing extremists.
Western countries.
Table of Contents:
  • Society must be dismantled : neoliberalism's critique of the social
  • "Politics must be dethroned"
  • The personal, protected sphere must be expanded
  • Speaking wedding cakes and whispering crisis pregnancy centers
  • No future for white men : nihilism, fatalism and ressentiment.

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