23 Facts About Wendy Brown

Wendy L Brown was born on November 28,1955 and is an American political theorist.

Wendy Brown is the UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.

In 2021, Wendy Brown was appointed to the faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study, where she holds the UPS Foundation chair.

Wendy Brown's work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has received many awards.

Wendy Brown served as Council Member of the American Political Science Association and as Chair of the UC Humanities Research Institute Board of Governors.

Wendy Brown received the 2016 Distinguished Teaching Award, UC Berkeley's most prestigious honor for teaching.

Wendy Brown received a UC Presidents Humanities Research Fellowship and was a Guggenheim Fellow.

Wendy Brown's thinking on the decline of sovereignty and the hollowing out of democracy has found popular and journalistic audiences, with discussions of her work appearing in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Guardian.

Together with Michel Feher, Wendy Brown is co-editor of the Zone Books' series Near Futures and its digital supplement Near Futures Online.

Wendy Brown has established new paradigms in critical legal studies and feminist theory.

Wendy Brown has produced a body of work drawing from Karl Marx's critique of capitalism and its relation to religion and secularism, Friedrich Nietzsche's usefulness for thinking about power and the ruses of morality, Max Weber on the modern organization of power, psychoanalysis and its implications for political identification, Michel Foucault's work on governmentality and neoliberalism, as well as other contemporary continental philosophers.

From outlawing hate speech to banning pornography, Wendy Brown argues, well-intentioned attempts at protection can legitimize the state while harming subjects by codifying their identities as helpless or in need of continuous governmental regulation.

Wendy Brown suggests that tolerance cannot be perceived as the complete opposite to violence.

Wendy Brown argues that tolerance primarily operates as a discourse of subject construction and a mode of governmentality that addresses or confirms asymmetric relations between different groups, each of which must then "tolerate" other groups and categories or "be tolerated" by the dominant groups and categories.

Wendy Brown argues that whilst the former acts as a political rationality, a mode of general regulation of behavior, the latter is both necessary to its survival, and parasitic of its survival.

Wendy Brown argues that walling has taken on new a significance due to its symbolic function in an increasingly globalized and precarious world of financial capital.

Wendy Brown's study begins by engaging and revising key arguments in Foucault's The Birth of Biopolitics with the aim of analyzing different ways that democracy is being hollowed out by neoliberal rationality.

Wendy Brown describes neoliberalism as a thoroughgoing attack on the most foundational ideas and practices of democracy.

Wendy Brown explores the unintentional outcomes of neoliberal reason, from its attack on the value of society and its fetish of individual freedom to its legitimation of inequality, to understand how it generates an apocalyptic populism willing to destroy the world rather than endure a future in which white male supremacy disappears.

Wendy Brown explores Weber's insights on countering nihilism, advocating for a reexamination of truth and a reinvigoration of integrity in both scholarly and political realms.

For decades, Wendy Brown has been active in efforts to resist measures toward the privatization of the University of California system.

Wendy Brown has been critical of the university's decision to cut costs by utilizing lecturers rather than hiring tenure and tenure track professors.

Wendy Brown is a native of California and lives in Berkeley with her partner Judith Butler and son.