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100			_aBrown, Wendy
245			_aStates of injury : power and freedom in late modernity
260			_bPrinceton University Press, _c1995 _aNew Jersey :
300			_axiii, 202 p. ; _c24 cm.
365			_b4250.00 _c₹ _d01
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aWhether 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.
650			_aPhilosophy
650			_aSexuality and Gender Studies
650			_aPolitics and Government
650			_aFeminist theory
650			_aPower (Social sciences)
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