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The Uncanny Friend
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What does this chapter have to offer our particular moment? The chapter takes Wendy Brown’s argument as the starting point, that neoliberal logic, by substituting market logic for any other normative or political position, has created a crisis in the democratic imagination, as well as in institutional politics. Beyond that, the chapter argue, the weakening of democratic ideas and norms has provided an opportunity for a politics of racism and authoritarian fantasy. At that moment, Machiavelli’s peculiarly anachronistic reading style can bring fresh democratic resources to our approach to it follows Louis Althusser in calling Machiavelli “uncanny,” why it argues one can read him as an uncanny friend, and then turns to the challenges suggested by Brown.
Title: The Uncanny Friend
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What does this chapter have to offer our particular moment? The chapter takes Wendy Brown’s argument as the starting point, that neoliberal logic, by substituting market logic for any other normative or political position, has created a crisis in the democratic imagination, as well as in institutional politics.
Beyond that, the chapter argue, the weakening of democratic ideas and norms has provided an opportunity for a politics of racism and authoritarian fantasy.
At that moment, Machiavelli’s peculiarly anachronistic reading style can bring fresh democratic resources to our approach to it follows Louis Althusser in calling Machiavelli “uncanny,” why it argues one can read him as an uncanny friend, and then turns to the challenges suggested by Brown.
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