States of Injury
Wendy Brown
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Philosophie
Beschreibung
A landmark work from one of our leading political theorists
A 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 emancipatory desire. Along the way, she advances a novel feminist critical theory of liberalism and the liberal democratic state. She also develops an original theoretical practice that weaves together Nietzsche, Marx, Weber, Foucault, and cultural theories of gender and race to analyze contemporary political predicaments.
Kundenbewertungen
Postmodernism, Social theory, Criticism, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy, Late modernity, Routledge, Bourgeoisie, Prerogative, Subjectivity, Identity politics, Historical materialism, Michel Foucault, Post-structuralism, Liberalism, Masculism, Femininity, Feminist theory, State (polity), Political economy, Privatization, Narrative, Public sphere, Marxism, Political freedom, Political philosophy, Dialectic, Welfare state, Civil society, Subversion, Feminism, Feminism (international relations), Sexism, Social constructionism, Catharine MacKinnon, Personhood, Patriarchy, Ressentiment, Intellectual, Paternalism, Social exclusion, Women's studies, Exclusion, Critical theory, Postmodernity, Oppression, State of nature, Ideology, Individualism, Emancipation, Household, Commodification, Sovereignty, Morality, Social relation, Person of color, Institution, Modernity, Civil and political rights, Nancy Hartsock, Metonymy, Slavery, Capitalism, Judith Butler, Pornography, Regime, Hannah Arendt, Unfreedom, Politics, Ethos, Critique