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This essay argues that modern demagogy can be understood as a symptomof a kind of social pathology, combining Wendy Brown's account of neoliberalsubjectivity with elements of Robert Pippin's interpretation of Hegel to doso. I begin by focussing on Brown's contention that neoliberal society hasbred forms of individual subjectivity that are inherently attuned to right-wingrhetoric. Drawing on Pippin's reading of Hegel, the essay casts these modes ofindividual subjectivity as aspects of a flawed mode of collective subjectivity;the contemporary rise of demagogic politics is thereby presented as a symptomof a pathological failure of collective self-determinacy, caused by inadequacieswithin the normative structures that articulate social activity.

Demagogy and Social Pathology: Wendy Brown and Robert Pippin on the Pathologies of Neoliberal Subjectivity