Nihilistic Times Thinking with Max Weber Brown Wendy

Harvard University Press 2023 Harvard University Press 144 Brown, Wendy Hardback

Wendy Brown diagnoses a late-modern nihilism that trivializes values—including truth itself—and reduces politics to narcissism and power-mongering. Rereading Max Weber, who saw a similar predicament in his own time, Brown seeks to reground political action in responsibility and reorient classrooms to the critical thinking citizens need today.