Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Cultural Contradictions of DemocracyCondition: NewSubtitle: Political Thought since September 11ISBN-10: 0691171203EAN: 9780691171203ISBN: 9780691171203Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/26/2016Description: Since 9/11, American foreign policy has been guided by grand ideas like tyranny, democracy, and freedom. And yet the course of events has played havoc with the cherished assumptions of hawks and doves alike. The geo-civil war afflicting the Muslim world from Lebanon through Iraq and Afghanistan to Pakistan confronts the West with the need to articulate anew what its political ideas and ideals actually are. In The Cultural Contradictions of Democracy, John Brenkman dissects the rhetoric that has corrupted today's political discourse and abused the idea of freedom and democracy in foreign affairs. Looking back to the original assumptions and contradictions that animate democratic thought, he attempts to resuscitate the language of liberty and give political debate a fresh basis amid the present global turmoil.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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 340gAuthor: John BrenkmanGenre: Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Cultural Contradictions of Democracy
Title: The Cultural Contradictions of Democracy
Subtitle: Political Thought since September 11
ISBN-10: 0691171203
EAN: 9780691171203
ISBN: 9780691171203
Release Date: 07/26/2016
Release Year: 2016
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Science Nature & Math
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Cultural Contradictions of Democracy : Political Thought since September 11
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: American Government / Judicial Branch, Terrorism, Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political Freedom
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.1 in
Subject Area: Political Science
Author: John Brenkman
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
