Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber

by Wendy Brown

One of America's leading political theorists analyzes the nihilism degrading--and confounding--political and academic life today. Through readings of Max Weber's Vocation Lectures, she proposes ways to counter nihilism's devaluations of both knowledge and political responsibility.

How has politics become a playpen for vain demagogues? Why has the university become an ideological war zone? What has happened to Truth? Wendy Brown places...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674279387
• ISBN13: 9780674279384
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.0"