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

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Brenkman, John.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: viii, 205 p.

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.