Expanding the personal protected sphere lets tradition recolonize formerly democratic space

Evidence

Enlarging the domain in which personal freedom is rightly unrestricted allows traditional beliefs and mores, or what Hayek calls “conventions and customs of human intercourse,” to legitimately reclaim and indeed recolonize, the civic and social where democracy once ruled. — Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism, 172

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hayek makes private property, gender norms, and tradition supervenient over government — Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise…, 121; Formal democratic liberties rest on an unseen foundation of physical coercion — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 346; Private knowledge can convert public space into semiprivate territory — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 709

Broader Connections

• Private knowledge can convert public space into semiprivate territory #complicates (0.78) — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 709
• Formal democratic liberties rest on an unseen foundation of physical coercion #corroborates (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 346