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  • In the Ruins of Neoliberalism

    The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West

    by Wendy Brown ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    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 ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Authoritarianism

    Three Inquiries in Critical Theory

    by Wendy Brown, Peter E. Gordon, Max Pensky ...
    Series series TRIOS
    Three distinguished scholars draw on critical theory to address the causes and circumstances behind the rise of autocracies and oligarchies.Across the Euro-Atlantic world, political leaders have been mobilizing their bases with nativism, racism, xenophobia, and paeans to "traditional values," in brazen bids for electoral support. How are we to understand this move to the mainstream of political ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nihilistic Times

    Thinking with Max Weber

    by Wendy Brown ...
    Series Book 9 - The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
    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 ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • Regulating Aversion

    Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire

    by Wendy Brown ...
    Tolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West. Emerging in early modern Europe to defuse violent religious conflict and reduce persecution, tolerance today is hailed as a key to decreasing conflict across a wide range of other dividing lines-- cultural, racial, ethnic, and sexual. But, as political theorist Wendy Brown argues in Regulating Aversion, tolerance ... Read more

    $42.89 CAD

  • States of Injury

    Power and Freedom in Late Modernity

    by Wendy Brown ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    A landmark work from one of our leading political theoristsA 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 ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • Manhood and Politics

    A Feminist Reading in Political Theory

    by Wendy L. Brown ...
    Series series New Feminist Perspectives
    'Is politics gendered? Wendy Brown things so, and argues for this point with elegance, imagination and pungent phrases. Brown's book is challenging, provocative and...original; it does force us to question the degree to which gender controls our politics.'-THE REVIEW OF POLITICS ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Fireside Stories

    Australian Family Stories

    by Helen Brown, Wendy Brown ...
    Join Helen and Wendy as they take you on a journey into days gone by. Visit with family and friends in a simpler time, when hard work was the order of the day, family was everything, and life in Australia was challenging but rewarding. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Ruins of Neoliberalism

    The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West

    by Wendy Brown ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    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 ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • States of Injury

    Power and Freedom in Late Modernity

    by Wendy Brown ...
    A landmark work from one of our leading political theoristsA 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 ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Women's Studies on the Edge

    by Wendy Brown, Robyn Wiegman, Gayle Salamon ...
    At many universities, women’s studies programs have achieved department status, establishing tenure-track appointments, graduate programs, and consistent course enrollments. Yet, as Joan Wallach Scott notes in her introduction to this collection, in the wake of its institutional successes, women’s studies has begun to lose its critical purchase. Feminism, the driving political force behind women’s ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Surviving the Apocalypse in the Suburbs

    The Thrivalist's Guide to Life Without Oil

    by Wendy Brown ...
    Based on the premise that we have 21 days before we lose our modern conveniences, Surviving the Apocalypse in the Suburbs is packed with practical solutions for becoming more self-reliant and transitioning to a lower energy lifestyle. From shelter to livestock to transportation to tools, this is the ultimate guide to simplifying your lifestyle while reducing your dependence on oil. ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Edgework

    Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics

    by Wendy Brown ...
    Edgework brings together seven of Wendy Brown's most provocative recent essays in political and cultural theory. They range from explorations of politics post-9/11 to critical reflections on the academic norms governing feminist studies and political theory. Edgework is also concerned with the intellectual and political value of critique itself. It renders contemporary the ancient jurisprudential ... Read more

    $63.79 CAD