02643cam a2200289L  45000010006000000050017000060080041000230200028000640200031000920350021001230500022001440820011001661000020001772450103001972600052003003000011003525000020003635051562003836500035019456500015019806500042019956500016020377000020020538560083020738560091021568560106022478987520230410120852.0091209s2007    nju           000 u eng d  a0691116644 (alk. paper)  a9780691116648 (alk. paper)  a(OCoLC)47600173614aJA 71bB837c 200700a320.011 aBrenkman, John.04aThe cultural contradictions of democracy :bpolitical thought since September 11 /cJohn Brenkman.  aPrinceton :bPrinceton University Press,c2007.  a205 p.  aIncludes 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 -- Prelude to the unknown / Conclusion -- Ideas and errors -- Arendt with Berlin -- Liberty without democracy versus democracy without liberty? -- Democratic striving and sectarian mobilization -- Untimely meditation. 0aPolitical sciencexPhilosophy. 0aDemocracy. 4aLa Ciencias políticasxFilosofía. 4aDemocracia.1 aBrenkman, John.  3Table of contents onlyuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0711/2007007659.html  3Publisher descriptionuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0726/2007007659-d.html  3Contributor biographical informationuhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0734/2007007659-b.html