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Hardcover Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber Book

ISBN: 0674279387

ISBN13: 9780674279384

Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber

One of America's leading political theorists analyzes the nihilism degrading--and confounding--political and academic life today. Through readings of Max Weber's Vocation Lectures, she proposes ways to counter nihilism's devaluations of both knowledge and political responsibility.

How 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...

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