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Wendy L. Brown (born November 28, 1955) is an American political theorist. She is the UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.
May 2, 2022 · The influential political theorist Wendy Brown has spent her career studying the very ideas — those of identity, freedom and tolerance — that are central to current debates about what’s happening...
Sep 27, 2023 · Wendy Brown, 67, is one of the most influential American thinkers in the field of political science. From the left, she has theorized about how the perverse rationality of neoliberalism laid the...
Professor Wendy Brown is Professor Emerita in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Brown received her PhD in Political Philosophy from Princeton University in 1983.
Jan 10, 2024 · In her recent book, Nihilistic Times: Thinking With Max Weber, the political theorist Wendy Brown offers a meditation on the political and academic ethos that many think has marked...
Aug 22, 2020 · UC Berkeley political theorist Wendy Brown talks to Rob Johnson about how the pandemic and protests against police brutality lay bare a crisis of neoliberalism.
Jan 18, 2018 · Since its original publication in 2015, Wendy Brown’s book Undoing the Demos has become a standard reference for those seeking to understand the relationship between neoliberalism and democracy. Brown’s central argument is that neoliberalism—which she characterizes as a “political rationality,” both following and revising Michel ...
Professor Wendy Brown is Professor Emerita in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Brown received her PhD in Political Philosophy from Princeton University in 1983.
She is best known for intertwining the insights of Marx, Nietzsche, Weber, Freud, Frankfurt School theorists, Foucault, and contemporary Continental philosophers to critically interrogate formations of power, political identity, citizenship, and political subjectivity in contemporary liberal democracies.
Aug 3, 2024 · Wendy Brown is the UPS Foundation Chair in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. Brown is a political theorist concerned with contemporary political challenges, from the future of democracy to the future of the planet.