Wendy Brown (political scientist)

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Brown in Berkeley, 2016
Berlin 2017

Wendy Brown (born November 28, 1955 ) is an American political scientist who writes in the tradition of critical theory and teaches in Berkeley .

Life

Brown holds degrees in political science and economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz) and philosophy from Princeton University . Her doctorate took place in Princeton in 1983. She then taught at Williams College and UC Santa Cruz.

Brown works in the field of political theory and critical theory as well as gender studies at the University of California, Berkeley , where she has taught as First Professor of Political Science since 1999 . She is considered a student of Sheldon Wolin .

From an epistemological perspective , Brown advocates a post-structuralist approach . Above all, she draws on the discourse-analytical considerations of Michel Foucault , but also argues with approaches from Karl Marx and Max Weber .

In December 2008 there was a debate between Wendy Brown and Rainer Forst at the ICI Berlin .

In May 2011 Brown gave the lecture Is Marx (Capital) Secular? at the Humboldt University in Berlin , a topic of her current research on the relationship between Marxism and religion . Her book Walled States, Waning Sovereignty received the David Easton Price in Political Theory in 2012.

In 2017, in Berlin's House of World Cultures , Wendy Brown gave the fourth Democracy Lecture - after Thomas Piketty (2014), Naomi Klein (2015) and Paul Mason (2016) - with the title "Democracy Under Fire: Apocalyptic Populism". Several newspaper and television interviews with Brown have appeared in the German media in recent years.

As a critic of neoliberalism, Brown supported the Occupy Wall Street movement. Brown's publications have been translated into more than 20 languages.

Brown lives with the philosopher Judith Butler .

Fonts (in German)

  • Walls: The new isolation and the decline of sovereignty . Translation by Frank Lachmann (Suhrkamp Verlag, March 2018).
  • Democracy under fire: Donald Trump and apocalyptic populism, in: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik 8 (2017).
  • What comes after the empire is the big question, in: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik 8 (2017).
  • Invest yourself! Wendy Brown in conversation with Isabelle Graw , in Texte Zur Kunst , issue No. 104 (2016).
  • Total Homo oeconomicus. How neoliberalism abolishes the sovereign, in: Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik 60 (2015), 12.
  • The creeping revolution. How neoliberalism destroys democracy . Translation Jürgen Schröder. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-518-58681-5
  • How secular is Marx's "Capital"? In After Marx: Philosophy, Criticism, Practice . Edited by Rahel Jaeggi and Daniel Loick , Berlin (Suhrkamp), 2013.
  • We're all Democrats now , translated from Frank Born's English. In: Giorgio Agamben , Alain Badiou , Slavoj Žižek , Jacques Rancière , Jean-Luc Nancy , Wendy Brown, Daniel Bensaïd , Kristin Ross : Democracy? : A debate . Berlin: Suhrkamp, ​​2012.
  • Enduring the paradoxes of the right. In: The Revolution of Human Rights. Basic texts on a new concept of the political . Edited by Christoph Menke and Francesca Raimondi. Suhrkamp Verlag (2011).
  • Reflections on Tolerance in the Age of Identity. In: Tolerance: Philosophical Foundations and Social Practice of a Controversial Virtue . Edited by Rainer Forst (Campus Verlag, 2000).

Books (in English)

  • 2015 Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution
  • 2014 The Power of Tolerance: A Debate , Wendy Brown and Rainer Forst (Eds. Luca Di Blasi and Christoph FE Holzhey)
  • 2011 Is Critique Secular? , with Asad, Butler and Mahmood
  • 2010 Walled States, Waning Sovereignty
  • 2006 Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire
  • 2005 Edgework: Critical Essays in Knowledge and Politics
  • 2002 Left Legalism / Left Critique (edited with Janet Halley)
  • 2001 Politics Out of History
  • 1995 States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity
  • 1988 Manhood and Politics: A Feminist Reading in Political Thought

Web links

Commons : Wendy Brown  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See: Marion Löffler: Wendy Brown (born 1955), in: Rüdiger Voigt (Hrsg.): State Thinking. On the state of state theory today, Baden-Baden 2016, p. 379.
  2. ↑ Faculty | UC Berkeley Political Science. Retrieved September 1, 2017 (English).
  3. ↑ Sheldon S. Wolin on princeton.edu (as of May 5, 2015)
  4. ↑ See: Marion Löffler: Wendy Brown (born 1955), p. 380.
  5. ^ The Power of Tolerance. A debate. columbia.edu (as of July 16, 2015)
  6. ^ Rethinking Marx
  7. ↑ See: Marion Löffler: Wendy Brown (born 1955), p. 379.
  8. ↑ Democracy Lecture 2017 Wendy Brown . Retrieved June 17, 2017.
  9. ↑ 3sat.online: interview with Wendy Brown - Apocalyptic about populism - 3sat.Mediathek. June 28, 2017. Retrieved June 29, 2017 .
  10. ^ SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg Germany: Trump voters: "Democracy is declared the enemy of the market" - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Culture. Retrieved June 29, 2017 .
  11. ↑ See: Marion Löffler: Wendy Brown (born 1955), p. 379.
  12. ↑ An encounter with the feminist philosopher Judith Butler . In: An encounter with the feminist philosopher Judith Butler | annabelle.ch . ( annabelle.ch [accessed June 29, 2017]).
  13. ↑ Link to the text "Politics out of History" ( Memento from February 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Brown, Wendy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1955