02885nam a2200361 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095015001900112016001800131020003100149020002800180040002100208035002100229050002300250082001500273084001500288100002000303245012600323260005300449300001700502504005100519505156200570533015202132650003502284650001502319655002902334710001702363856012602380999001702506ebr10312565CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||070223s2007    nju     sb    001 0 eng    z  2007007659  aGBA7543842bnb7 z0137902902Uk  z9780691116648 (alk. paper)  z0691116644 (alk. paper)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)43742728514aJA71b.B735 2007eb04a320.01222  a89.062bcl1 aBrenkman, John.14aThe cultural contradictions of democracyh[electronic resource] :bpolitical thought since September 11 /cJohn Brenkman.  aPrinceton :bPrinceton University Press,cc2007.  aviii, 205 p.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aIntroduction: 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.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aPolitical sciencexPhilosophy. 0aDemocracy. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10312565zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c63315d63315