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Contents Introduction: Political Thought in the Fog of War 1 War and Democracy Hobbes versus Kant? Leviathan The Neoconservative Illusion The Frailty of Human Affairs Crises of the Republic The Argument Seized by Power 27 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 60 State of Exception Arendt versus Agamben Schmitt and Hobbes Decision and Covenant The Ordeal of Universalism September 11 and Fables of the Left 91 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 124 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 169 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 221 Ideas and Errors Arendt with Berlin Liberty without Democracy versus Democracy without Liberty? Democratic Striving and Sectarian Mobilization Untimely Meditation Index
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Political science -- Philosophy.
Democracy.