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Author_Wendy Brown
Bourgeoisie
Capitalism
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Catharine MacKinnon
Civil and political rights
Civil society
Commodification
Critical theory
Criticism
Critique
Dialectic
Emancipation
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Ethos
Exclusion
Femininity
Feminism
Feminism (international relations)
Feminist theory
Hannah Arendt
Hegemony and Socialist Strategy
Historical materialism
Household
Identity politics
Ideology
Individualism
Institution
Intellectual
Judith Butler
Late modernity
Liberalism
Marxism
Masculism
Metonymy
Michel Foucault
Modernity
Morality
Nancy Hartsock
Narrative
Oppression
Paternalism
Patriarchy
Person of color
Personhood
Political economy
Political freedom
Political philosophy
Politics
Pornography
Post-structuralism
Postmodernism
Postmodernity
Prerogative
Privatization
Public sphere
Regime
Ressentiment
Routledge
Sexism
Slavery
Social constructionism
Social exclusion
Social relation
Social theory
Sovereignty
State (polity)
State of nature
Subjectivity
Subversion
Unfreedom
Welfare state
Women's studies
Product details
- ISBN 9780691029894
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 23 Jul 1995
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Whether in characterizing Catharine MacKinnon's theory of gender as itself pornographic or in identifying liberalism as unable to make good on its promises, Wendy Brown pursues a central question: how does a sense of woundedness become the basis for a sense of identity? Brown argues that efforts to outlaw hate speech and pornography powerfully legitimize the state: such apparently well-intentioned attempts harm victims further by portraying them as so helpless as to be in continuing need of governmental protection. "Whether one is dealing with the state, the Mafia, parents, pimps, police, or husbands," writes Brown, "the heavy price of institutionalized protection is always a measure of dependence and agreement to abide by the protector's rules." True democracy, she insists, requires sharing power, not regulation by it; freedom, not protection. Refusing any facile identification with one political position or another, Brown applies her argument to a panoply of topics, from the basis of litigiousness in political life to the appearance on the academic Left of themes of revenge and a thwarted will to power.
These and other provocations in contemporary political thought and political life provide an occasion for rethinking the value of several of the last two centuries' most compelling theoretical critiques of modern political life, including the positions of Nietzsche, Marx, Weber, and Foucault.
Wendy Brown is the UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Her books include Nihilistic Times, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism, and Undoing the Demos.
