YOU CAN ONLY SITE FROM THE BOOK MENTIONED BELOW SO PLEASE BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU ARE MAKING ARGUMENTS SINCE THEY HAVE TO BACKED UP BY THE BOOK!
“When neoliberal rationality succeeds in disappearing social powers, critical claims rooted in them are nothing more than the baseless whining of ‘snowflakes.’ At the same time, neoliberalism’s reduction of unfreedom to coercion casts principles (and laws based on them) of equality and inclusion as tyrannical political correctness. …
The logical consistency rests in the assumption that power is limited to coercion and that freedom is equivalent to the absence of law and its dictates” (41)
“The most powerful tool for replacing democratic rule with deregulated markets and traditional morality is liberty disembedded from society and from democracy…” (110)
-W. Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism
By taking these two passages as your point of departure, please write an essay on how neoliberal notions of freedom relates to democracy. Does neoliberalism undo or transform democracy? How so? And to what end?
And references are limited to “Sacrificial Citizenship” and/or In the Ruins of Neoliberalism, so please no outside sources. Last but not least: please make sure that you answer the questions you choose and insert page numbers.