Demagogy and Social Pathology: Wendy Brown and Robert Pippin on the Pathologies of Neoliberal Subjectivity
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2019
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Tom Bunyard, « Demagogy and Social Pathology: Wendy Brown and Robert Pippin on the Pathologies of Neoliberal Subjectivity », Araucaria. Revista Iberoamericana de Filosofía, Política y Humanidades, ID : 10670/1.9gl50b
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"This essay argues that modern demagogy can be understood as a symptom of a kind of social pathology, combining Wendy Brown’s account of neoliberal subjectivity with elements of Robert Pippin’s interpretation of Hegel to do so. I begin by focussing on Brown’s contention that neoliberal society has bred forms of individual subjectivity that are inherently attuned to right-wing rhetoric. Drawing on Pippin’s reading of Hegel, the essay casts these modes of individual subjectivity as aspects of a flawed mode of collective subjectivity; the contemporary rise of demagogic politics is thereby presented as a symptom of a pathological failure of collective self-determinacy, caused by inadequacies within the normative structures that articulate social activity."