Tracing neoliberalism's devastating erosions of democratic principles, practices, and cultures.
Neoliberal rationality―ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, and culture―remakes everything and everyone in the image of homo oeconomicus. What happens when this rationality transposes the constituent elements of democracy into an economic register? In Undoing the Demos, 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.
In an original and compelling argument, Brown explains how and why neoliberal reason undoes the political form and political imaginary it falsely promises to secure and reinvigorate. Through meticulous analyses of neoliberalized law, political practices, governance, and education, she charts the new common sense. Undoing the Demos makes clear that for democracy to have a future, it must become an object of struggle and rethinking.
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這學期選修裏輪讀輪到我的時候，被要求讀這本的Ch1，然而我真的…短短幾十頁就把我搞懵圈瞭（我希望是我自己水平不夠…但是真的覺得這章邏輯很弱啊，想寫什麼就寫什麼，看慣瞭有小標題的書再看這本真的想死。不過概念拋齣還是真的蠻有趣，new homology的分析挺驚艷的
评分隻讀瞭introduction，後麵幾頁寫得真好啊，這什麼讓人絕望的世界。
评分難得給白左點個贊。Judith Butler的老婆有這樣的水平她也爛不到哪去吧。。都說Wendy Brown是新馬派，但這本書很多地方都是站在人文主義關懷的立場上批判當代資本主義（新自由主義）對社會和人性的戕害。第六章關於liberal arts education的討論簡直把我看哭瞭。不過有時候所假定的民主目標還是太激進空洞瞭。另外，作者的政治思想史素養極高，文中對亞裏士多德、盧梭、斯密、邊沁、密爾、韋伯 等人（還有一點托剋維爾）思想概括的文段都極其精闢準確，一點也不偏頗，幾乎挑不齣毛病來，完全可以摘抄當作備考書啊！福柯的部分我當然都直接跳過瞭，嘿嘿嘿
评分how human becomes human capital and how the society is corrupted into a market.
评分跟她聊天一定很纍吧……
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