Wendy Brown

States of Injury (eBook, PDF)

Power and Freedom in Late Modernity

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A landmark work from one of our leading political theorists A sympathetic critique that attempts to free Left politics from its own snares, States of Injury explores how woundedness became a basis for contemporary political identity. Without condemning identity politics, Wendy Brown carefully probes the varied historical forces generating them today and the ways these formative conditions constrain emancipatory desire. Along the way, she advances a novel feminist critical theory of liberalism and the liberal democratic state. She also develops an original theoretical practice that weaves together Nietzsche, Marx, Weber, Foucault, and cultural theories of gender and race to analyze contemporary political predicaments. In a new preface, Brown places States of Injury in political and intellectual context, including the rise of neoliberalism, and addresses the book's renewed relevance in today's political landscape.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780691270616
• Artikelnr.: 72259019

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Ch. 1
Introduction: Freedom and the Plastic Cage
3
Ch. 2
Postmodern Exposures, Feminist Hesitations
30
Ch. 3
Wounded Attachments
52
Ch. 4
The Mirror of Pornography
77
Ch. 5
Rights and Losses
96
Ch. 6
Liberalism's Family Values
135
Ch. 7
Finding the Man in the State
166
Index
197