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62Sovereignty and the return of the repressedIn David Campbell & Morton Schoolman (eds.), The New Pluralism: William Connolly and the Contemporary Global Condition, Duke University Press. pp. 250--272. 2008.
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The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and EthicsPolitical Theory 31 (3): 461-470. 2001.
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3Democracy in What State?Columbia University Press. 2012."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 and cultural realities. Giorgio Agamben traces the tense history of constitutions and their coexistence with various governments. Alain Badiou contrasts current democratic practice with democratic communism. Daniel Bens…Read more
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Sovereign hesitationsIn Pheng Cheah & Suzanne Guerlac (eds.), Derrida and the time of the political, Duke University Press. 2009.
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1At the edgeIn Stephen K. White & J. Donald Moon (eds.), What is political theory?, Sage Publications. 2004.
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Vacilaciones soberanasIn E. Biset, Ana Paula Penchaszadeh & Marcela Rivera Hutinel (eds.), Soberanías en deconstrucción, Editorial Universidad Nacional De Córdoba. 2019.
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Thinking together : reply to criticsIn Amy Allen & Eduardo Mendieta (eds.), Power, neoliberalism, and the reinvention of politics: the critical theory of Wendy Brown, The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2022.
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1What is left of freedom?In Amy Allen & Eduardo Mendieta (eds.), Power, neoliberalism, and the reinvention of politics: the critical theory of Wendy Brown, The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2022.
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73Democracy in What State?Columbia University Press. 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 and cultural realities. Giorgio Agamben traces the tense history of constitutions and their coexistence with various governments. Alain Badiou contrasts current democratic practice with democratic communism. Daniel Bens…Read more
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36Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and EmpirePrinceton University Press. 2008.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 also has dark and troubling undercurrents. Dislike, disapproval, and regulation lurk at the heart of to…Read more
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34Manhood and Politics: A Feminist Reading in Political TheoryRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1988.'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
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55. Neoliberalism and the Economization of RightsIn Cristina Lafont & Penelope Deutscher (eds.), Critical Theory in Critical Times: Transforming the Global Political and Economic Order, Columbia University Press. pp. 91-116. 2017.
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51Politics Out of HistoryPrinceton University Press. 2001.Wendy Brown's work commands widespread attention and respect, and there has been considerable interest as to how it would develop after "States of Injury." This book will not disappoint.
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28Book Review: What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, by Michael Sandel and Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale, by Deborah SatzWhat Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, by SandelMichael. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale, by SatzDeborah. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012 (review)Political Theory 42 (3): 355-363. 2014.
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45At the EdgePolitical Theory 30 (4): 556-576. 2002.Here lies the vocation of those who preserve our understanding of past theories, who sharpen our sense of the subtle, complex interplay between political experience and thought, and who preserve our memory of the agonizing efforts of intellect to restate the possibilities and threats posed by political dilemmas of the past. —Sheldon S. Wolin, “Political Theory as a Vocation”In the same way in which the great transformation of the first industrial revolution destroyed the social and political str…Read more
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48The Power of Tolerance: A Debate (edited book)Columbia University Press. 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? To what extent does tolerance hide its involvement with power and act as a form of depoliticization? Wendy Brown and Rainer Forst debate the uses and misuses of tolerance, an exchange that highligh…Read more
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90What is important in theorizing tolerance today?Contemporary Political Theory 14 (2): 159-196. 2015.
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148Wounded AttachmentsPolitical Theory 21 (3): 390-410. 1993.If something is to stay in the memory, it must be burned in: only that which never ceases to hurt stays in the memory. Friedrich Nietzsche
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58"Supposing Truth Were a Woman...": Plato's Subversion of Masculine DiscoursePolitical Theory 16 (4): 594-616. 1988.What is found at the historical beginnings of things is not the inviolable identity of their origin; it is the dissention of other things. It is diaparity. —Michel Foucault
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75States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late ModernityPrinceton University Press. 1995.Whether in characterizing Catharine MacKinnon's theory of gender as itself pornographic or in identifying liberalism as unable to make good on its promises, Wendy Brown pursues a central question: how does a sense of woundedness become the basis for a sense of identity? Brown argues that efforts to outlaw hate speech and pornography powerfully legitimize the state: such apparently well-intentioned attempts harm victims further by portraying them as so helpless as to be in continuing need of gove…Read more
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121Sacrificial Citizenship: Neoliberalism, Human Capital, and Austerity PoliticsConstellations 23 (1): 3-14. 2016.
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