[D66] In the Ruins of Neoliberalism

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In the Ruins of Neoliberalism

The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West

Columbia University Press 2019

October 14, 2019 Democracy Works

Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something
different to everyone. Wendy Brown is one of the world’s leading
scholars on neoliberalism and argues that a generation of neoliberal
worldview among political, business, and intellectual leaders led to the
populism we’re seeing throughout the world today. But is it mutually
exclusive to democracy? Not necessarily. Wendy joins us this week to
help make sense of what neoliberalism is, and where things stand today.
We were lucky enough to get an advance copy of her book, In the Ruins of
Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West (Columbia
UP, 2019), which will be released in July. It’s a follow up to her 2015
book, Undoing the Demos, and you’ll hear her talk about how her thinking
has changed since then.

Wendy is the Class of 1936 First Chair at the University of California,
Berkeley, where she teaches political theory. You might also recognize
her from Astra Taylor’s documentary, What Is Democracy?

Democracy Works is created by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at
Penn State and recorded at WPSU Penn State, central Pennsylvania’s NPR
station.

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