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Book SynopsisAs the security state grows in power and dominance, commercial and financial interests increasingly penetrate our social existence. Neoliberalism, the Security State, and the Quantification of Reality addresses the relationship between these two trends in its discussion of neoliberalism, financialization, and managerialism, with a particular focus on the decline of professionalism, the restructuring of tertiary education, and the university's abandonment of the humanities. Additionally, David Lea links these developments with the failings of democratic institutions, the growth of the disciplinary society, and the emergence of the security state, which relentlessly governs by extraordinary fiat dividing, disempowering and excluding. Lea identifies one such linkage inthe common form of rationality, which underlies contemporary approaches to reality. Others have noted that one of the most notable political developments of the last thirty years or so has been increasing public and gov
Table of ContentsChapter 1: Neoliberalism, Financialization, and Managerialism Chapter 2: Professionalism in an Age of Financialization and Managerialism Chapter 3: The Corporate University Chapter 4: The Future of the Humanities in Today’s Financial Markets Chapter 5: A Culture of Counting: The Quantification of Reality Chapter 6: The Clash of Cultures Thesis: Liberalism versus Communitarianism Chapter 7: Carl Schmitt on International Relations and the Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy Chapter 8: The Security Issue and The Security State Chapter 9: Foucault: The Disciplinary Society and Biopolitical Realities Chapter 10: Agamben: Interpreting the Biopolitical, Sovereignty, and Non-Identitarian Politics Chapter 11: Agamben and the Biopolitical: A Final Critical Evaluation
