"The concept of toleration plays a central role in pluralistic societies. It designates a stance which permits conflicts over beliefs and practices to persist while at the same time defusing them, because it is based on reasons for coexistence in conflict - that is, in continuin…
"Is Leo Strauss truly an intellectual forebear of neoconservatism and a powerful force in shaping Bush administration foreign policy? The Truth about Leo Strauss puts this question to rest, revealing for the first time how the popular media came to perpetuate such an oversimpli…
"Considers the problems of sovereignty through the work of Rousseau, Arendt, Foucault, [Giorgio] Agamben, and Derrida. Following up on the fables and stories surrounding political sovereignty--once theological, now often nationalist - Peter Gratton's The State of Sovereignty tak…
Democracy, in what state?
by Agamben, Giorgio, McCuaig, William
fromNew directions in critical theory
