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HENT DE VRIES of the ego) but rather radicalizes Hegel’s conception of totality, which comes to express reason, indeed, the reas ...

INTRODUCTION tic: for example, the concept of the omnipotence of God has been translated into the idea of an all-powerful lawgiv ...

HENT DE VRIES Beyond Tolerance: Pluralism and Agonistic Reason One should not yield too quickly to the temptation to associate t ...

INTRODUCTION lectual and cultural resources—‘‘generate a renewed ethical consciousness,’’ which is ever more needed in a time wh ...

HENT DE VRIES outlay, one that cannot be legally commanded’’ (p. 253). While this need for political virtues does not necessaril ...

INTRODUCTION cations he draws out even more fully than Habermas by insisting on the ‘‘de facto nonuniversality of both major cul ...

HENT DE VRIES commentator to state the obvious: ‘‘The next American president will undoubtedly invoke God’s blessing on America, ...

INTRODUCTION Connolly’s analysis resonates with one proposed by Heinrich Meier, general editor of Strauss’sCollected Writingsand ...

HENT DE VRIES own skepticism about the ability to provide the ground that civilization needs’’ (p. 282). Ultimately, Strauss mig ...

INTRODUCTION speaking, possible, in the first place? Belonging to time, it seems, requires its polar oppo- site, if not ontologi ...

HENT DE VRIES (such as the leader or some collective ideal) represent ‘‘a condition—whether temporary or enduring—of barbarism’’ ...

INTRODUCTION ated with the common good, such as the separation between the church’s and its own jurisdictions. In Mouffe’s words ...

HENT DE VRIES articulation. Scherer’s contribution inscribes itself into the broader project of retracing a ‘‘politics of persua ...

INTRODUCTION Scherer uses the motif of saintliness, a term that must first be historically and contex- tually situated, then ana ...

HENT DE VRIES resituating, Thoreau’s concept of ‘‘civil disobedience’’ was based, Singh claims, on a posi- tive ‘‘relation to de ...

INTRODUCTION Marrati) or with law. Rather, it is linked to a concept of ‘‘justice’’ that exceeds the Kantian (or, for that matte ...

HENT DE VRIES In other words, no geopolitical dominance can last; it is unstable for structural reasons, internal to the very co ...

INTRODUCTION invisibility, of media coverage and secrecy, on the one hand, and a reimagining, with the help of Benjamin, of ‘‘ca ...

HENT DE VRIES their premises. In the theatricality, as well as in the structure of ‘‘monumental govern- mentality,’’ that inspir ...

INTRODUCTION transcendence of the ‘‘general will.’’ In this, he parts ways with a central assumption of thinkers who insist on t ...