Wendy Brown: 37 books
Browsing Nature's Aisles
A Year of Foraging for Wild Food in the Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
When most of us think of self-sufficiency, we think of growing a large garden, and maybe keeping a few chickens for eggs or meat. While this is certainly part of the picture, unless you live on a large acreage or happen to be a permaculture god or goddess, it is unlikely that it will be enough to allow...
Politiques du stigmate
Pouvoir et liberté dans la Modernité avancée
Language: French
Release Date: April 20, 2016
À égale distance d’un argumentaire libéral trop formel et d’une analyse en termes de protection des individus par le pouvoir politique, Wendy Brown s’emploie à approfondir nos différentes expositions à la blessure et montre comment la politique prend sens par rapport à cette vulnérabilité...
Regulating Aversion
Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
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,...
The Power of Tolerance
A Debate
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
We invoke the ideal of tolerance in response to conflict, but what does it mean to answer conflict with a call for tolerance? Is tolerance a way of resolving conflicts or a means of sustaining them? Does it transform conflicts into productive tensions, or does it perpetuate underlying power relations?...
In the Ruins of Neoliberalism
The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2019
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...
Authoritarianism
Three Inquiries in Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2018
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 policies and platforms that lurked only...
by Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaid
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
"Is it meaningful to call oneself a democrat? And if so, how do you interpret the word?"
In responding to this question, eight iconoclastic thinkers prove the rich potential of democracy, along with its critical weaknesses, and reconceive the practice to accommodate new political...
Edgework
Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
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...
by Wendy Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
Love succeeds when you meet all of these conditions: you have enough love to make your relationship worthwhile; you understand how it works; and you understand equally well how to fix it when it doesn’t work. Why Love Succeeds or Fails is a how-to book for the serious person who wants deep answers...
by Wendy Brown, Robyn Wiegman, Gayle Salamon
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2008
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...
Critical Theory at a Crossroads
Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
We are living in an age of crisis—or an age in which everything is labeled a crisis. Financial, debt, and refugee “crises” have erupted. The word has also been applied to the Arab Spring and its aftermath, Brexit, the 2016 U.S. election, and many other international events. Yet the term has...
The Six Passions of the Red-Hot Lover
Find Out Which One is Yours
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
As a Red-hot Lover, you're not just into mind-blowing sex. There's a big part of you that's also up for regal, passionate love replete with heartbreak, challenge, pursuit, gallantry, vindication and attention (the six passions.) You have a sneaking feeling that you could be a Lovesick Lover, Prince/Princess,...
Antidemocracy in America
Truth, Power, and the Republic at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
On Election Day in 2016, it seemed unthinkable to many Americans that Donald Trump could become president of the United States. But the victories of the Obama administration hid from view fundamental problems deeply rooted in American social institutions and history. The election’s consequences...
by Wendy Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
In the latter half of the twentieth century the percentage of the total American population living in suburbs grew to nearly 50 percent. Fossil fuels were cheap and plentiful and car-dependent energy-intensive lifestyles came hand-in-hand with this demographic transition. In the age of Peak Oil environmental...