Brenkman The Cultural Contradictions of Democracy

Political Thought since September 11
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2795-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Brenkman, John

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Zentralregierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Political Thought in the Fog of War 1

War and Democracy 1

Hobbes versus Kant? 4

Leviathan 6

The Neoconservative Illusion 9

The Frailty of Human Affairs 12

Crises of the Republic 14

The Argument 19

Seized by Power 24

Death and the Governor of Texas 24

The New American Exceptionalism 28

The Cold Warrior Myth 34

Kant with Arendt 37

Targeting Iraq 41

Al Qaeda and Ultimate Ends 43

A Grammar of Motives 46

The Imagination of Power 51

State of Exception 51

Arendt versus Agamben 55

Schmitt and Hobbes 59

Decision and Covenant 64

The Ordeal of Universalism 71

September 11 and Fables of the Left 78

First Response 78

Multilateral Ambivalence 81

Terrorism as Symptom 84

Chomskian Certitudes 87

Hardt and Negri's Empire 94

The Multitude and Prophecy 98

Iraq: Delirium of War, Delusions of Peace 103

The Idealism of Means 103

The Idealism of Ends 106

Neither Left nor Right 110

The Atlantic Misalliance 117

Diplomatic Intrigues and Political Truths 122

Repudiations of the UN Left and Right 126

The Hobbesian Nightmare: Occupied Iraq 131

The Ordeal of Universalism 137

Democracy and War 137

Postnational Cosmopolitanism versus Liberal Nationalism? 141

Kant with Hobbes 144

Habermas's Agon with Schmitt 146

Hobbes with Kant 152

Europe, or, the Empire of Rights 157

Islam's Geo-Civil War 165

Global Neoliberal Religious Conservatism? 170

No Exit 177

Conclusion: Prelude to the Unknown 182

Ideas and Errors 182

Arendt with Berlin 183

Liberty without Democracy versus Democracy without Liberty? 188

Democratic Striving and Sectarian Mobilization 191

Untimely Meditation 195

Index 201

Über Autor(innen)

John Brenkman is distinguished professor at the City University of New York and director of the U.S.-Europe Seminar at Baruch College. He has published widely on culture and political theory. He lives in New York and Paris.