Critique in a Neoliberal Age brings a critique of ideology to main debates within economic sociology, populism studies, the neoliberal university, therapy culture, contemporary intimacies and feminism. Over the last decades, neoliberalism has worked to lift social protections and political regulations from the market and to identify modernity with capitalism itself. It has also engaged in an ideological project to screen alternative measurements of progress. Liberal and social democracy have been effectively disabled as grounds for weighing the costs of neoliberal predations. This volume examines the strategies through which neoliberalism has reconstituted and de-politicized liberal precepts such as universal justice, private right and a social democratic project responsive to needs. As such it will appeal to scholars and students of sociology and social and critical theory, political and social philosophy, politics, cultural studies and feminist thought.

About the Author

Pauline Johnson is Associate Professor of Sociology at Macquarie University Australia. She is the author of Marxist Aesthetics and Habermas: Rescuing the Public Sphere and Feminism as Radical Humanism, and co-editor of Culture and Enlightenment: Essays for Gyoergy Markus and Modern Privacies: Shifting Boundaries, New Forms.

Book Information
ISBN 9781032083254
Author Pauline Johnson
Format Paperback
Page Count 176
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 267g