Undoing the Demos | Brown Wendy | Twarda

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pbTracing neoliberalism's devastating erosions of democratic principles, practices, and cultures. bppNeoliberal rationality--ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, and culture--remakes everything and everyone in the image of ihomo oeconomicusi. What happens when this rationality transposes the constituent elements of democracy into an economic register In iUndoing the Demosi, 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.ppIn an original and compelling argument, Brown explains how and why neoliberal reason undoes the political form and

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