{"title":"Wendy Brown","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWendy Brown\u003c\/strong\u003e offers profound insights into contemporary politics, philosophy, and societal structures. Her work critically examines the impacts of neoliberalism, sovereignty, and democracy, inviting readers to reconsider power dynamics in modern states.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEngaging with themes from political theory to cultural critique, Brown's writings challenge prevailing narratives and explore the intersections of injury, authority, and public life. 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Why has the university become an ideological war zone? What has happened to Truth? Wendy Brown places nihilism at the centre of these predicaments. Emerging from the retreat of God and tradition in the face of science and reason, nihilism removes the foundation on which values, including that of truth, stand. It hyperpoliticises knowledge and renders the profound trivial, the future unimportant, and corruption banal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn search of remedies, Brown turns to Max Weber's Vocation Lectures. Weber famously decries the effects of nihilism on scholarly and political life and proposes to keep the two separate, restricting academic work to the pursuit of facts and the political realm to the legislation of values. Without accepting Weber's arch oppositions, Brown acknowledges the distinctions they mark as she charts reparative strategies for our own times. She calls for retrieving knowledge from hyperpoliticisation without expunging values from research or teaching, and she challenges the left to make good on its commitments to critical thinking and democratization.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031800529132,"sku":"9780674301603","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1517913482428.jpg?v=1764149073"},{"product_id":"nihilistic-times-by-wendy-brown-9780674279384","title":"Nihilistic Times","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of America's leading political theorists analyses the nihilism degrading and confounding political and academic life today. Through readings of Max Weber's Vocation Lectures, she proposes ways to counter nihilism's devaluations of both knowledge and political responsibility.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow has politics become a playpen for vain demagogues? Why has the university become an ideological war zone? What has happened to truth? Wendy Brown places nihilism at the centre of these predicaments. Emerging from European modernity's replacement of God and tradition with science and reason, nihilism removes the foundation on which values, including that of truth itself, stand. It hyperpoliticises knowledge and reduces the political sphere to displays of narcissism and irresponsible power plays. It renders the profound trivial, the future unimportant, and corruption banal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo consider remedies for this condition, Brown turns to Weber's famous Vocation Lectures, delivered at the end of World War I. There, Weber himself decries the effects of nihilism on both scholarly and political life. He also spells out requirements for re-securing truth in the academy and integrity in politics. Famously opposing the two spheres to each other, he sought to restrict academic life to the pursuit of facts and reserve for the political realm the pursuit and legislation of values.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWithout accepting Weber's arch oppositions, Brown acknowledges the distinctions they aim to mark as she charts reparative strategies for our own times. She calls for retrieving knowledge from hyperpoliticisation without expunging values from research or teaching and reflects on ways to embed responsibility in radical political action. Above all, she challenges the left to make good on its commitment to critical thinking by submitting all values to scrutiny in the classroom and to make good on its ambition for political transformation by twinning a radical democratic vision with charismatic leadership.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383942496492,"sku":"9780674279384","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1295723482428.jpg?v=1773389920"},{"product_id":"states-of-injury-by-wendy-brown-9780691270609","title":"States of Injury","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA landmark work from one of our leading political theorists\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA sympathetic critique that attempts to free Left politics from its own snares, \u003cem\u003eStates of Injury\u003c\/em\u003e explores how woundedness became a basis for contemporary political identity. 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