Are Capitalism and Democracy Compatible?

Antonella Corsani ()
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Antonella Corsani: CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Laurent Jeanpierre, in his introduction to the French edition of Wendy Brown's "Neo-Liberalism and Neo-Conservatism: Global Politics New Clothes", remarks that the originality of Brown's analysis rests in her demonstration – which is inspired by Foucault's analysis but goes beyond it -- that the neo-liberal political rationality acts towards a "dis-activation of western liberal democracies". Adopting the same perspective, I would like to re-actualize an old question: are capitalism and democracy compatible?My argument will therefore lead me to distanciate myself both from Wendy Brown and Michel Foucalt, to the extent that I re-introduce an analysis of capital and its transformations. I will end up posing the question of democracy in a different, although complementary, way with respect to Wendy Brown.

Keywords: Neoliberalism; Subjectivity; Democraty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-03-18
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Published in Citizenship in the 21st Century, Mar 2008, Pittsburgh, United States

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