"The new right-wing forces combine familiar elements of neoliberalism with their apparent opposites. They combine a self-perceived moral superiority with an almost celebratory, amoral, and disrespectful behavior. They endorse authority while exhibiting unprecedented public social disinhibition and aggression. They rage against relativism, but also against science and reason. They despise politicians and politics while simultaneously evidencing a ferocious will to power and political ambition. What is this?"

In this book, written after Trump's victory, American political philosopher Wendy Brown interrogates the moral side of neoliberalism, that which allows it to become conservative and fills the anti-democratic right with fury. She seeks to capture the new subjective formations fueled by resentment at the loss (or threat of loss) of the privilege of whiteness, masculinity, and Christianity. What are these forces that neoliberalism combines to endure and renew itself? Mapping and narrating this drift is essential to understanding the ruins of neoliberalism (what is left exposed as its foundations and fundamentals) but also to thinking about and experimenting with how to ruin it.