Kyong-Min Son is associate professor of political science and international relations at the University of Delaware.
The Eclipse of the Demos offers a striking account of the
current fate of democracy in the North Atlantic world and puts paid
to presentist accounts of neoliberalism and right-wing ascendance.
By focusing on the distinctive contours of Cold War democratic
theory and practice, the book sheds light on the historical
trajectory of liberal democracy and how it relates both
historically and conceptually to neoliberalism, while carefully
contextualizing current modalities of democratic disaffiliation.
Written with audacity and erudition, Son's book constitutes an
important contribution to an accurate and sober understanding of
the current travails of democracy." - Antonio Y. VA!zquez-Arroyo,
author of Political Responsibility: Responding to Predicaments
of Power
"The critique of democracy by neoliberal thinkers like F. A. Hayek
is often treated as a scandal, a basic sin against the ideology of
the free society. Yet Kyong-Min Son's illuminating book shows that
skepticism about democracy ran down the mainstream of scholarly
conversation after 1945. There was no Golden Age. To understand the
challenge to democracy posed by neoliberalism, we must reckon with
the entire postwar period." - Quinn Slobodian, author of
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
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