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The Hedgehog Review archives from September 2010
From the editors.
September 22, 2010... IN HER BOOK, THE HUMAN CONDITION, GERMAN-JEWISH EXILE AND intellectual Hannah Arendt writes "being seen and being heard by others derive their significance from the fact that everybody sees and hears from a different position. This is the...
Does religious pluralism require secularism?
September 22, 2010... Despite predictions to the contrary, religion is not disappearing. By now many proponents of the secularization thesis - the - argument that with modernity the world is becoming less and less religious on a path to a religion-free world - have...
States, religious diversity, and the crisis of secularism.(Viewpoint essay)
September 22, 2010... Over the last three decades, secular states, virtually everywhere, have come under strain. It is hardly surprising then that political secularism, the doctrine that defends them, has also been subjected to severe criticism. Some scholars have...
The meaning of secularism.(Essay)
September 22, 2010... 1 It is generally agreed that modern democracies have to be "secular." There is perhaps a problem, a certain ethnocentricity, involved in this term. But even in the Western context the term is not limpid and may in fact be misleading. What in...
Rethinking secularism.(Viewpoint essay)
September 22, 2010... Secularism is often treated as a sort of absence. It's what is left if religion fades. It's the exclusion of religion from the public sphere but somehow in itself neutral. This is misleading. We need to see secularism as a presence, as...
Secularism: a bibliographic essay.(Bibliography)(Essay)
September 22, 2010... Secularism has origins in the West but has long ceased to be its property. It is a global phenomenon with an equally global crisis. For theoretical and empirical purposes, therefore, secularism should be thought or in the plural rather than in...
Why a Hyper-Polarized Party System Weakens America's Democracy.(Essay)
September 22, 2010... THE CURRENT CONGRESS-THE 111TH-IS THE most ideologically polarized in modern history. In both the House and the Senate, the most conservative Democrat is more liberal than is the most liberal Republican. If one defines the congressional "center"...
Polarization and the crisis of legitimacy.(Essay)
September 22, 2010... THE LONGSTANDING DEBATE ABOUT consensus and dissensus in American public life is not merely academic. The data collected, the articles and books published, the heated words exchanged amount to much more than intellectuals blowing smoke at each...
The Myth of a non-polarized America.(Essay)
September 22, 2010... BY 2005, A LONG, HARD-FOUGHT SCHOLARLY debate, which had lasted over twenty years, finally reached a consensus: there was no "culture war" in America. Extinguishing the debate originally ignited by James Davison Hunter's 1991 book on the topic,...
Non-public opinion: Adorno and the Frankfurt School's Group Experiment.
September 22, 2010... IN 1949, FRANKFURT SCHOOL SCHOLARS Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and Friedrich Pollock returned to Germany from their exile in the U.S. with a European critical theory transformed but not betrayed by its ideological encounter with American...
The Idea of Justice.(Book review)
September 22, 2010... The Idea of Justice Amartya Sen Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. Rare are intellectuals who both achieve a leading status in their field and relentlessly pursue knowledge that seeks to better the lives of ordinary people....
Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character.(Book review)
September 22, 2010... Made in America: A Social History of American Culture and Character. Claude S. Fischer Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. For four hundred years, Americans have generated a steady flow of complaining jeremiads: Americans are...
Alexis de Tocqueville: The First Social Scientist.(Book review)
September 22, 2010... Alexis de Tocqueville: The First Social Scientist Jon Elster Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. For the past four decades, political theorist Jon Elster has sought to reduce the ambiguities and hubris of social scientists by...
