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It is argued that brown is right to follow foucault in defining neoliberalism as a form of political rationality, but that core arguments of the book could be developed further through attention to the following points. According to brown, democracy has grown gaunt as a consequence of an ascendant political rationality that, like an ideological autoimmune disorder, has assaulted its very fiber and futuredemocracy is the crux of the issueand by focusing on how. After a first term blindly attempting to find middle ground with the increasingly radical right, obamas second term marked a shift back towards the lofty liberal ideals that launched him into the white house in the first place. Neoliberalisms defeat of democracy critical inquiry. Neoliberalisms remaking of state and subject 17 this book is a theoretical consideration of the ways that neoliberalism, a peculiar form of reason that configures all aspects of existence in economic terms, is quietly undoing basic elements of democracy. In this volume, three distinguished scholars draw on critical theory to address our current predicament. Pdf on aug 7, 2017, oscar leonard larsson and others published wendy brown, undoing the demos. These elements include vocabularies, principles of justice, political cul.
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