Patriotism and Other MistakesYale University Press, 2006-01-01 - 422 psl. George Kateb has been one of the most respected and influential political theorists of the last quarter century. His work stands apart from that of many of his contemporaries and resists easy summary. In these essays Kateb often admonishes himself, in Socratic fashion, to keep political argument as far as possible negative: to be willing to assert what we are not, and what we will not do, and to build modestly from there some account of what we are and what we ought to do. Drawing attention to the non-rational character of many motives that drive people to construct and maintain a political order, he urges greater vigilance in political life and cautions against "mistakes" not usually acknowledged as such. Patriotism is one such mistake, too often resulting in terrible brutality and injustices. He asks us to consider how commitments to ideals of religion, nation, race, ethnicity, manliness, and courage find themselves in the service of immoral ends, and he exhorts us to remember the dignity of the individual. The book is divided into three sections. In the first, Kateb discusses the expansion of state power (including such topics as surveillance) and the justifications for war recently made by American policy makers. The second section offers essays in moral psychology, and the third comprises fresh interpretations of major thinkers in the tradition of political thought, from Socrates to Arendt. |
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... sense of necessity—the dominion of fear, interest, and honor, the dominion of standard power politics—does not appear very often to account adequately for the urges of activist policy. Where the strong keep enhancing their strength and ...
... sense of necessity—the dominion of fear, interest, and honor, the dominion of standard power politics—does not appear very often to account adequately for the urges of activist policy. Where the strong keep enhancing their strength and ...
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... sense of life as an ensemble of initiatives and responses, of manners and gestures—prove difficult to convert into aesthetic ones, by acts of a possessed imagination. Then again, if democ- racy has cultural strength, it satisfies the ...
... sense of life as an ensemble of initiatives and responses, of manners and gestures—prove difficult to convert into aesthetic ones, by acts of a possessed imagination. Then again, if democ- racy has cultural strength, it satisfies the ...
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... sense of. Art is sullied when people treat it as a means to their consumption or self-realization, rather than as existing impervious to the uses made of it and demanding that it be taken in on its own terms. What is noteworthy is that ...
... sense of. Art is sullied when people treat it as a means to their consumption or self-realization, rather than as existing impervious to the uses made of it and demanding that it be taken in on its own terms. What is noteworthy is that ...
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... sense of freedom. When acting in concert, people as equal citizens or equal rebels make something new happen and they do so by finding capaci- ties in themselves that no other kind of activity would have called forth so lustrously ...
... sense of freedom. When acting in concert, people as equal citizens or equal rebels make something new happen and they do so by finding capaci- ties in themselves that no other kind of activity would have called forth so lustrously ...
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... sense of kinship of a largely invented purity ; and social ties that are largely invisible or impersonal , indeed abstract , yet by an act of insistent or of dream - like imagination made visible and personal . What , then , is ...
... sense of kinship of a largely invented purity ; and social ties that are largely invisible or impersonal , indeed abstract , yet by an act of insistent or of dream - like imagination made visible and personal . What , then , is ...
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