David R. Lea

Neoliberalism, the Security State, and the Quantification of Reality

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the relationship between the security state and the dominant economic interests, pointing to the ever-increasing reliance on a quantitative understanding of the natural and social worlds, which has vitiated the traditional values that constrained the exercise of power by both the market and the intrusive apparatus of the state.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 570g
• ISBN-13: 9781498520072
• ISBN-10: 1498520073
• Artikelnr.: 45799015

Autorenporträt

By David R. Lea

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Neoliberalism, Financialization, and Managerialism Chapter 2:
Professionalism in an Age of Financialization and Managerialism Chapter 3:
The Corporate University Chapter 4: The Future of the Humanities in Today's
Financial Markets Chapter 5: A Culture of Counting: The Quantification of
Reality Chapter 6: The Clash of Cultures Thesis: Liberalism versus
Communitarianism Chapter 7: Carl Schmitt on International Relations and the
Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy Chapter 8: The Security Issue and The
Security State Chapter 9: Foucault: The Disciplinary Society and
Biopolitical Realities Chapter 10: Agamben: Interpreting the Biopolitical,
Sovereignty, and Non-Identitarian Politics Chapter 11: Agamben and the
Biopolitical: A Final Critical Evaluation