Dean Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies

Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9092-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 228 Seiten

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Argues that the political left has failed to claim its ideological victories and subsequently has enabled a depoliticization of crucially political concerns, such as the economy and capitalism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dean, Jodi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Post-Politics and Left Victory 1

1. Technology: The Promises of Communicative Capitalism 19

2. Free Trade: The Neoliberal Fantasy 49

3. Democracy: A Knot of Hope and Despair 75

4. Resolve: Speaking of Evil 95

5. Ethics: Left Responsiveness and Retreat 123

6. Certainty: 9/11 Conspiracy Theories and Psychosis 145

Notes 177

Bibliography 195

Index 203

Über Autor(innen)

Jodi Dean is Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Erasmus Professor of the Humanities in the Faculty of Philosophy at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. She is the author of Žižek’s Politics, Publicity’s Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy, and Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace.