The cultural contradictions of democracy
Subtitle: political thought since September 11
By: John Brenkman.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780691116648
Description: "The Cultural Contradictions of Democracy picks apart the intellectual design and messianic ambitions of the neoconservative American foreign policy articulated by figures such as Robert Kagan and Paul Berman; it casts the same critical eye on a wide range of liberal and leftist thinkers, including Noam Chomsky and Jurgen Habermas, and probes the severe crisis that afflicts progressive political thought. Brenkman draws on the contrary visions of Hobbes, Kant, Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, and Isaiah Berlin in order to disclose the new contours of conflict in the age of geo-civil war, and to illuminate the challenges and risks of contemporary democracy."--Jacket.