Undoing the Demos makes clear that for democracy to have a future, it must become an object of struggle and rethinking. Through meticulous analyses of neoliberalized law, political practices, governance, and education, she charts the new common sense. In 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.

Radical democratic dreams may not either. In Wendy Browns 2015 book Undoing the Demos the American scholar asks: could neoliberal politics and its promise of economic empowerment across class.

Liberal democratic practices may not survive these transformations. The 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. To be specific, neo-liberalism has undermined what is at the heart of democracy: popular sovereignty, the demos it has, in a word, undone the demos and, hence, democracy. What happens when this rationality transposes the constituent elements of democracy into an economic register? In Undoing the Demos, Wendy Brown explains how democracy itself is imperiled. In Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution, Wendy Brown argues that neo-liberalism has undermined democracy in a hitherto unprecedented form. Undoing the Demos - Neoliberalisms Stealth Revolution by Wendy Brown, 9781935408536, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. Neoliberal rationality-ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, and culture-remakes everything and everyone in the image of homo oeconomicus. Tracing neoliberalism's devastating erosions of democratic principles, practices, and cultures. Wendy Browns Undoing the Demos is comprised of two parts: Neoliberal Rea- son and Political Life and Disseminating Neoliberal Reason with each con.

Undoing the Demos by Wendy Brown