Nihilistic times : thinking with Max Weber
- Cambridge : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2023
- 132 p. ; 19 cm
- The Tanner lectures on human values .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Wendy Brown diagnoses a crisis of nihilism in the United States, as market ideals displace values of truth and integrity and identity politics encourage a destructive epidemic of victimhood. Taking strength from Max Weber's WWI-era calls for moral courage, Brown aims to renew commitments to basic values of citizenship and public life.
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Citizenship United States Ethics Identity politics Nihilism, Philosophy Political aspects History and Theory Weber, Max, 1864-1920