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_bB769 1995
100 1 _aBrown, Wendy,
_d1955-.
245 1 0 _aStates of injury :
_bpower and freedom in late modernity /
_cWendy Brown.
260 _aPrinceton, N.J. :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c©1995.
300 _axiii, 202 pages ;
_c23 cm.
500 _aAbstract: Whether in characterizing Catharine MacKinnon's theory of gender as itself pornographic or in identifying liberalism as unable to make good on its promises, Wendy Brown pursues a central question: how does a sense of woundedness become the basis for a sense of identity? Brown argues that efforts to outlaw hate speech and pornography powerfully legitimize the state: such apparently well-intentioned attempts harm victims further by portraying them as so helpless as to be in continuing need of governmental protection. "Whether one is dealing with the state, the Mafia, parents, pimps, police, or husbands," writes Brown, "the heavy price of institutionalized protection is always a measure of dependence and agreement to abide by the protector's rules." True democracy, she insists, requires sharing power, not regulation by it; freedom, not protection. Refusing any facile identification with one political position or another, Brown applies her argument to a panoply of topics, from the basis of litigiousness in political life to the appearance on the academic Left of themes of revenge and a thwarted will to power. These and other provocations in contemporary political thought and political life provide an occasion for rethinking the value of several of the last two centuries' most compelling theoretical critiques of modern political life, including the positions of Nietzsche, Marx, Weber, and Foucault.
504 _6Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aContents: 1. Introduction : freedom and the plastic cage—2. Postmodern exposures, feminist hesitations—3. Wounded attachments—4. The mirror of pornography—5. Rights and losses—6. Liberalism's family values—7. Finding the man in the state.
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650 0 _aPolitical science – Philosophy.
650 0 _aPower (Social sciences).
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