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. Vázquez-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
|
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
