The cultural contradictions of democracy political thought since September 11 /
| Main Author: | Brenkman, John. |
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| Corporate Authors: | ebrary, Inc. |
| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
c2007.
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| Online Access: |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Political thought in the fog of war
- War and democracy
- Hobbes versus Kant?
- Leviathan
- The neoconservative illusion
- The frailty of human affairs
- Crises of the republic
- The argument
- Seized by power
- Death and the governor of Texas
- The new American exceptionalism
- The cold warrior myth
- Kant with Arendt
- Targeting Iraq
- Al Qaeda and ultimate ends
- A grammar of motives
- The imagination of power
- State of exception
- Arendt versus Agamben
- Schmitt and Hobbes
- Decision and covenant
- The ordeal of universalism
- September 11 and fables of the left
- First response
- Multilateral ambivalence
- Terrorism as symptom
- Chomskian certitudes
- Hardt and Negri's Empire
- The multitude and prophecy
- Iraq : delirium of war, delusions of peace
- The idealism of means
- The idealism of ends
- Neither left nor right
- The Atlantic misalliance
- Diplomatic intrigues and political truths
- Repudiations of the UN left and right
- The Hobbesian nightmare : occupied Iraq
- The ordeal of universalism
- Democracy and war
- Postnational cosmopolitanism versus liberal nationalism?
- Kant with Hobbes
- Habermas's Agon with Schmitt
- Hobbes with Kant
- Europe, or, the empire of rights
- Islam's geo-civil war
- Global neoliberal religious conservatism?
- No exit
- Conclusion: Prelude to the unknown
- Ideas and errors
- Arendt with Berlin
- Liberty without democracy versus democracy without liberty?
- Democratic striving and sectarian mobilization
- Untimely meditation.