The cultural contradictions of democracy : political thought since September 11 /

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Since 9/11, American foreign policy has been guided by grand ideas like tyranny, democracy, and freedom. And yet the course of events has played havoc with the cherished assumptions of hawks and doves alike. The geo-civil war afflicting the Muslim world from Lebanon through Iraq and Afghanistan to P...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brenkman, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Political science > Philosophy.
Democracy.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom.
Democracy
Political science > Philosophy
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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