With and against Max Weber: A Conversation with Wendy Brown on Politics and Scholarship in Nihilistic Times
Sebastian Raza,
Daniel Davison-Vecchione
Abstract:The following discussion with philosopher and political theorist Wendy Brown revisits some of the arguments of her latest book, Nihilistic Times, in the light of her larger diagnosis presented in Undoing the Demos and In the Ruins of Neoliberalism. Thinking with and against Max Weber, Wendy Brown guides us through and to ways of doing politics and conducting scholarship capable of informing world-making practices that face up to the challenges of a nihilistic world. Picking up on some topics from a previous in… Show more
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