{"product_id":"undoing-the-demos-by-wendy-brown-9781935408536","title":"Undoing the Demos","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracing 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 \u003cem\u003ehomo oeconomicus\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when this rationality transposes the constituent elements of democracy into an economic register? In \u003cem\u003eUndoing the Demos\u003c\/em\u003e, Wendy Brown explains how democracy itself is imperilled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 neoliberalised law, political practices, governance, and education, she charts the new common sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUndoing the Demos\u003c\/em\u003e makes clear that for democracy to have a future, it must become an object of struggle and rethinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47601086365932,"sku":"9781935408536","price":59.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781935408536-undoing-the-demos.jpg?v=1777994696","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/undoing-the-demos-by-wendy-brown-9781935408536","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}