Wendy Brown: Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar

March 19, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Mānoa Campus, Art Auditorium Add to Calendar

Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism and the Political Life.

This lecture examines the damaging effects of neoliberal reason on democratic principles and ideals. I argue that the value and values of democracy are challenged today not merely by the unrestrained power of finance capital and large corporations, or by extreme and growing economic inequality. Rather, they are undermined by an economic form of reason and governance that is undoing the constituent terms of democracy--freedom, equality, citizenship, rights, and above all, popular sovereignty.


Event Sponsor
Phi Beta Kappa, Honors Program, Office of Undergraduate Education, English, Political Science, and American Studies, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Vernadette Gonzalez, (808) 956-8391, vvg@hawaii.edu, http:// , Wendy Brown Public Lecture (PDF)

Share by email