Posted in Democracy, Hauerwas, Jeffrey Stout, Milbank, Tradition on February 4, 2008 | 43 Comments »
Danny Jenkins raised an interesting point in his response to the Badiou quote about identity politics and capitalistic territorialization I posted last week. His comment was that the Hauerwasian system, “refuses to allow the Christian narrative to capitulate to a standard of rationality foreign to it.” In other words, for Hauerwas (and [...]
Posted in David Foster Wallace, Democracy, Politics on January 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In the November issue of The Atlantic, David Foster Wallace posed the question, “Are some things still worth dying for?” In his sort editorial he submitted that we have forgone the necessary public debate about how we ought to balance liberty and security in our post 9/11 era. Inspired by Benjamin Franklin’s oft [...]
Posted in Democracy, Hardt, Jefferson, Lenin, Revolution on January 27, 2008 | No Comments »
Here are a couple of interesting passages from Michael Hardt’s introduction to The Declaration of Independence, which is part of a new series by Verso.
Human nature as it is now, which, as Lenin says, has been formed by subordination, must be made anew. The capacities necessary for democracy and self-rule, in other words, [...]
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