Power, Neoliberalism, and the Reinvention of Politics : : The Critical Theory of Wendy Brown / / ed. by Eduardo Mendieta, Amy Allen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• MitwirkendeR: Allen, Amy,; Brown, Wendy,; Celikates, Robin,; Goldman, Loren,; Haider, Asad,; Marasco, Robyn,; Mendieta, Eduardo,; Oksala, Johanna,
• HerausgeberIn: Allen, Amy,; Mendieta, Eduardo,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Penn State Series in Critical Theory
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (204 p.)

Wendy Brown is one of the most prolific and influential political theorists of her generation. This collection of essays, designed for the undergraduate classroom, presents an introduction to and critical assessment of Brown’s substantial body of work, with a particular focus on her contributions to the tradition of critical theory.Coeditors Amy Allen and Eduardo Mendieta provide an overview of Brown’s work, situating her scholarship in relation to some of the major thinkers and methodologies of the Frankfurt School. Brown opens the discussion with a new essay expounding upon the meaning of freedom and the prospects for emancipation in our current political moment. Subsequent chapters address different aspects of Brown’s corpus, including her early feminist interpretation of the history of political theory, her influential critiques of identity politics and progressive philosophies of history, and her recent interrogation of the rise of neoliberalism and the resurgence of authoritarian politics. The volume concludes with Brown’s response to her critics, where she clarifies and expands upon the implications of her core ideas.In addition to Brown and the editors, the contributors to this volume include Robin Celikates, Loren Goldman, Asad Haider, Robyn Marasco, and Johanna Oksala.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 What Is Left of Freedom? -- Chapter 3 Gender, Politics, and the State A Feminist Reading of Wendy Brown -- Chapter 4 Nonsynchronicity and the Exhaustion of Progress; or, Reading Wendy Brown in Ludwigshafen -- Chapter 5 Voluntary Subordination Neoliberal Freedom and Its Femina Domestica -- Chapter 6 Feminism Against Neoliberalism Questioning the Political with Wendy Brown -- Chapter 7 Four Concepts in Depoliticized Politics -- Chapter 8 De- , Hyper- , or Pseudopoliticization? Undoing and Remaking the Demos in the Age of Right- Wing Authoritarianism -- Chapter 9 Th inking Together Reply to Critics -- Contributors -- Index