In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West

by Wendy Brown

Book Overview

Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values. Is this phenomenon the end of neoliberalism or its monstrous offspring?

In the Ruins of Neoliberalism casts the hard-right turn as animated by socioeconomically aggrieved white working- and middle-class populations but contoured by neoliberalism's multipronged assault on democratic values...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231193858
• ISBN13: 9780231193856
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"