Wendy Brown

Beyond 27

Wendy Brown is UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and Class of 1936 Professor Emeritus of Political Science at UC Berkeley.  Her work focuses on predicaments of power in democracies, capitalism, social movements, and human psyches, and now extends to the non-human world as well.  Author or co-author of a dozen books translated into more than twenty languages, her most recent works are In the Ruins of Neoliberalism:  The Rise of Anti-Democratic Politics in the West (2019) and Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber (2023).  She is currently working on a book entitled Reparative Democracy: A Politics for the 21st Century.