Polity articles from March 2001

Polity archives from March 2001

Moral Perfectionism and Abortion Politics.
March 22, 2001... The project of this paper is to explore a line of interdisciplinary speculation that suggests the possibility, if remote, that a pro-abortion political stance (often referred to in minimalist and somewhat euphemistic terms as "pro-choice"(1))...

Presidential Challenges to Judicial Supremacy and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning(*).
March 22, 2001... In 1803, Chief Justice John Marshall declared that "it is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is," and thus claimed for the Supreme Court the right to determine the meaning of the Constitution and...

Can Less Be More? Leftist Deliberative Democrats' Critique of Participatory Democracy(*).
March 22, 2001... Democratic theory has changed its focus. By the beginning of the 1980s, participatory democracy appeared, even to its defenders, to be losing its grip on political theorists' attention. In 1982, Carole Pateman remarked that "for many people in...

Recognizing Rights: Social Recognition in T. H. Green's System of Rights(*).
March 22, 2001... I. Introduction One of T. H. Green's most provocative claims is that there is correlativity between individual claim-rights and the common good. In fact, the general idea was for Green so intoxicating that he formed the elements of a...

Worldly Pleasure: Hannah Arendt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Wallace Stevens, and "Political" Consciousness.
March 22, 2001... Most of us nowadays are deeply ambivalent about politics in the usual range of that word's meanings, if not openly scornful of it. We habitually dismiss the utterances of our political leaders, whose words, we know, are selected and calibrated...

(Re)Turning Derrida to Heidegger: Being-With-Others as Primordial Politics(*).
March 22, 2001... I. Introduction Deconstruction's bearing on political thought has been controversial for the last thirty years.(1) Although Derrida has always claimed that his writings are political in nature,(2) that every deconstructive reading is a...

Culture, Citizenship, and Community: A Contextual Exploration of Justice as Evenhandedness.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Joseph H. Carens, Culture, Citizenship, and Community: A Contextual Exploration of Justice as Evenhandedness (Oxford University Press, 2000). With Culture, Citizenship and Community: A Contextualist Exploration of Justice as...

Globalizing Care.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Fiona Robinson, Globalizing Care (Boulder: Westview, 1999). Caring for each other is the most basic form of civic participation.(1) Claims that care is a form of "civic participation," that care should be recognized as "a major...

Citizenship and the Ethics of Care: Feminist Considerations on Justice, Morality and Politics.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Citizenship and the Ethics of Care: Feminist Considerations on Justice, Morality and Politics (New York: Routledge, 1998). Caring for each other is the most basic form of civic participation.(1) Claims that care is a form of "civic...

Love's Labor.(Review)
March 22, 2001... Eva Kittay, Love's Labor (New York: Routledge, 1999). Caring for each other is the most basic form of civic participation.(1) Claims that care is a form of "civic participation," that care should be recognized as "a major national...