Wendy Brown Quotes on Politics
Wendy Brown is an American political theorist and UPS Foundation Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, whose work has shaped contemporary critical reflection on neoliberalism, sovereignty, and the political theology of the present. This page collects quotes attributed to Wendy Brown on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Wendy Brown:
“Neoliberalism is the political form in which homo oeconomicus comes to displace homo politicus.”
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“Walls are built where sovereignty is felt to be slipping.”
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“Identity is haunted by the historical wounds it cannot quite name.”
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Attributed to Wendy Brown:
“Politics out of history is politics that has not yet found the courage to look back.”
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Attributed to Wendy Brown:
“Democracy survives only as long as we are willing to rule and to be ruled in turn.”
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“Neoliberalism is essentially a form of governing that sees democracy as an obstacle, at best, or as an illegitimate intervention into the rule of the market, at worst. For neoliberalism, rule by markets is understood as a form of governance that should be applied everywhere, not just to marketised goods, but to education, prisons, the organisation of state, and so on. So neoliberalism treats popular sovereignty, or decisions based on human agreement and deliberation, as inappropriate interference with the efficient market and the price mechanism.”
Neoliberalism Has Eviscerated the Fabric of Social Life , interview with Wendy Brown by Adam Ostolski, Green European Journal , March 2017