Nihilistic Times - Wendy Brown

A Seminary Co-op Notable Book“What makes Brown’s book especially well worth reading is her impressive ability to show how key themes in Weber’s scholarship—including his emphasis on the defining characteristics of modernity . . . speak to our own time.” —Inside Higher Ed “Presses us to think more carefully and imaginatively about the relationships among human freedom, human value, and something beyond purely human concerns, be it truth, God, or Gaia.” —Commonweal “Worth reading…A timely reminder of the nihilistic air we breathe.” —Law & Liberty “Elegantly and concisely written…this insightful, thought-provoking book illuminates some objective culture factors contributing to the social division and degradation of public life in many democracies today.” —Critical TheologyHow has politics become a playpen for vain demagogues? Why has the university become an ideological war zone? What has happened to Truth? Wendy Brown places nihilism at the center of these predicaments. Emerging from the replacement of God and tradition with science and reason, nihilism removes the foundation on which values, including that of truth itself, stand. It hyperpoliticizes knowledge and renders the profound trivial, the future unimportant, and corruption banal. To consider remedies for this condition, Brown turns to Max Weber’s Vocation Lectures. Weber decries the effects of nihilis
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