David Lebow
Biographic Data
| ID | 4375874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Lebow |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Lebow |
| SIGNATURE | LEBOW D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2374-5529 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The value form and the wounds of neoliberalism
Indecisive Liberal Faith, Capitalism, and the Constitution
Jack Balkin’s scholarship exhibits an indecisive faith, symptomatic of legal liberalism, committed to belief in the future moralization of politics and disavowal of that belief. This yields indecisive theories of constitutionalism, politics, jurisprudence, and history; repeatedly, focus on progress, open-endedness, and discussion neglects how previous decisions and entrenched institutions foreclose alternatives. Above all, Balkin disregards how c…
Trumpism and the Dialectic of Neoliberal Reason
Guided by the thesis that fascism was the outcome of a dialectic of instrumental reason, I argue that Trumpism is the result of a dialectic of neoliberal reason. The 2008 crisis revealed that widely distributed consumption could no longer be sustained through escalating debt, as it had been since neoliberalizing reforms in the 1970s. Economic crisis has been interpreted through a culture market in which pseudo-individual consumers choose what hyp…
Leviathans unbound: Irrationalist political thought in interwar United States and Germany
This comparative ideological history considers why interwar America produced less prominent thought threatening parliamentarism and the rule of law than Germany. Despite different traditions, thinkers in Progressive Era America and Weimar Germany shared two commitments. Both scorned political parties and yearned for national unity. Both were also hostile to the restraints of legal formalism. Both efforts to deploy unbounded states to realize unit…
Caro's Lives: Comparative Biography as Political Theory
Robert Caro's biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson prove fruitful for political theory, particularly when approached in tandem, along the lines of Plutarch's comparative profiles. Building on the supposition that general insights into political power and its ethics lie in biographical particulars, Caro demonstrates that the most exhaustively detailed research of the most extreme subjects can yield otherwise inaccessible findings. Simila…
Trumpism and the Dialectic of Neoliberal Reason
Guided by the thesis that fascism was the outcome of a dialectic of instrumental reason, I argue that Trumpism is the result of a dialectic of neoliberal reason. The 2008 crisis revealed that widely distributed consumption could no longer be sustained through escalating debt, as it had been since neoliberalizing reforms in the 1970s. Economic crisis has been interpreted through a culture market in which pseudo-individual consumers choose what hyp…
Caro's Lives: Comparative Biography as Political Theory
Robert Caro's biographies of Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson prove fruitful for political theory, particularly when approached in tandem, along the lines of Plutarch's comparative profiles. Building on the supposition that general insights into political power and its ethics lie in biographical particulars, Caro demonstrates that the most exhaustively detailed research of the most extreme subjects can yield otherwise inaccessible findings. Simila…
Trumpism and the Dialectic of Neoliberal Reason
Guided by the thesis that fascism was the outcome of a dialectic of instrumental reason, I argue that Trumpism is the result of a dialectic of neoliberal reason. The 2008 crisis revealed that widely distributed consumption could no longer be sustained through escalating debt, as it had been since neoliberalizing reforms in the 1970s. Economic crisis has been interpreted through a culture market in which pseudo-individual consumers choose what hyp…
Leviathans unbound: Irrationalist political thought in interwar United States and Germany
This comparative ideological history considers why interwar America produced less prominent thought threatening parliamentarism and the rule of law than Germany. Despite different traditions, thinkers in Progressive Era America and Weimar Germany shared two commitments. Both scorned political parties and yearned for national unity. Both were also hostile to the restraints of legal formalism. Both efforts to deploy unbounded states to realize unit…
Indecisive Liberal Faith, Capitalism, and the Constitution
Jack Balkin’s scholarship exhibits an indecisive faith, symptomatic of legal liberalism, committed to belief in the future moralization of politics and disavowal of that belief. This yields indecisive theories of constitutionalism, politics, jurisprudence, and history; repeatedly, focus on progress, open-endedness, and discussion neglects how previous decisions and entrenched institutions foreclose alternatives. Above all, Balkin disregards how c…
The value form and the wounds of neoliberalism
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works) · Neoliberalism (international relations (2 works)