Overview
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780226522104 |
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Publisher: | University of Chicago Press |
Publication date: | 05/15/2009 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 376 |
File size: | 502 KB |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Port of Entry1 From Shock to Terror
2 From Terror to War
3 The Circle of War and Emergency
4 The Regeneration of Emergency through Violence
5 The Cold War Is Not Over
6 The Distemper of Monocracy
1 The Cold War Today
2 Today's Cold War in the System of Civic War
3 Civic War and the Monocratic Tendency
4 Two Poles of Power: Monocratic Omnipotence and Jeffersonian Justification
5 Phases of Communication: Secrets, Lies, and Publicness
6 The Export of "Moral Clarity"
7 The Cold War Comes Home: The Revival of Reaganism
8 The Breeding Ground of Monocracy
9 The Constitution of Power and the Corruption of the Citizen after September 11th
Notes
Works Cited
Index
What People are Saying About This
"After September 11, 2001, U.S. politicians embraced the rhetoric of war as a substitute for politics. Armed with 2,500 years of the European philosophical tradition, epigrammatic prose, and fiery detachment, Peter Meyers slays the monsters our sleep of reason brought forth. In its brilliant exposition of the duty of the citizen to exercise informed judgment in the collective self-defense, Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen is a remarkable addition to the literature of civic engagement."--(John Brady Kiesling, former U.S. Diplomat and author of Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower)
"This is among the most important analyses that I've seen of what has happened to politics in the wake of the September 11 attacks. No other thinker has so clearly articulated how both terrorism and the response to it threaten democracy by suppressing contentious political speech. Meyers's argument is timely, impressively learned, and compelling."--(Craig Calhoun, Pesident of the Social Science Research Council and University Professor of the Social Sciences, New York University)
"Just when it seemed as if there was nothing more to say about fear, terror, and emergency after 9/11, this original diagnosis and bracing call for a reassertion of the powers of citizenship offers a restorative work of democratic theory. Assertive and insistent, the eloquence of Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen compels attention and demands an active response."--(Ira Katznelson, Ruggles Professor of Political Science and History, Columbia University)