Combine Editions Wendy Brown’s books Average rating: 4. Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos1 tells a big, ambitious, and unfamiliar story about what neoliberalism is, and about what its ascent means for us. Neoliberalism generates a condition of politics absent democratic institutions that would support a democratic public and all that such a public represents at its best: informed passion, respectful deliberation, aspirational sovereignty, sharp containment of powers that would overrule or undermine it. She is Class of 1963 First Professor of Political Science and a core faculty member in The Program for Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley.

This persistence of politics amid the destruction of public life and especially educated public life, combined with the marketization of the political sphere, is part of what makes contemporary politics peculiarly unappealing and toxic- full of ranting and posturing, emptied of intellectual seriousness, pandering to an uneducated and manipulable electorate and a celebrity-and-scandal-hungry corporate media. Includes bibliographical references and index. The operation of neoliberal politics and practices outside of the US context 2). Struggles remain over power, hegemonic values, resources, and future trajectories. Brown, Wendy, 1955-Undoing the demos: neoliberalism's stealth revolu lion/ by Wendy Brown.-First edition. 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: 1). “As neoliberalism wages war on public goods and the very idea of a public, including citizenship beyond membership, it dramatically thins public life without killing politics.

Brown undoing the demos