The cultural contradictions of democracy political thought since September 11 /

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Main Author: Brenkman, John
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2007.
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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.