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War and Its Discontents: Pacifism and Quietism in the Abrahamic Traditions. Edited by Burns J. Patout. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1996. 240p. $55.00.

The relationship between particular identities and universal rights is a continuing problem for activists and theorists committed to a feminist and postmodern democratic politics. In States of Injury, Wendy Brown undertakes a critical analysis of late modern state power to reveal how identity politics translated into rights claims often reinscribes the oppression it would overcome. Her approach is influenced by Foucault but amended by Marxian, Nietzschean, and Weberian insights. She argues that Foucault's genealogies of disciplinary power serve to displace and by implication diminish the power of the state. (Foucault's work on governmentality, which has received less scholarly attention, is, as she notes, an exception.) Following Foucault's lead, many progressive intellectuals turned away from the state just as it consolidated a distinctive form of late modern power. The result was a variety of all too easily reappropriated assertions of freedom. Among them Brown includes: progressive liberalism and its twin sister, bourgeois feminism; radical democracy in the guise of protest groups; therapeutic discourses of the self-help movement; and the more specific discourses of feminists against pornography and critical legal theorists.