Nihilistic Times - Thinking With Max Weber

Wendy Brown diagnoses a late-modern nihilism that trivializes values-including truth itself-and reduces politics to narcissism and power-mongering. Rereading Max Weber, who saw a similar predicament in his own time, Brown seeks to reground political action in responsibility and reorient classrooms to the critical thinking citizens need today.

About the author

Wendy Brown is UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study and was for many years Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books, which have been translated into more than twenty languages, include In the Ruins of Neoliberalism, States of Injury, Undoing the Demos, and Walled States, Waning Sovereignty.

Product details

• Authors: Wendy Brown
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.11.2025
• EAN: 9780674301603
• ISBN: 978-0-674-30160-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: The Tanner Lectures on Human Values; Tanner Lectures in Human Values
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social Theory, Political Ideologies, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Political ideologies and movements