Undoing the Demos

Political theorist Wendy Brown opens her brilliant and incisive new book, Undoing the Demos, with a clarion call: Western democracy is imperiled. According to Brown, democracy has grown gaunt as a consequence of an ascendant political rationality that, like an ideological autoimmune disorder, has assaulted its very fiber and futureDemocracy is the crux of the issueand by focusing on how it's been diminished Brown has written a book that deserves to be widely read. - Astra Taylor, Bookforum