Polity articles from March 2002

Polity archives from March 2002

Marx, Foucault, Genealogy.(influence of Karl Marx on philosophy of Michel Foucault)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... For many of us as young intellectuals, an interest in Nietzsche of Bataille didn't represent a way of distancing oneself from Marxism or communism. Rather, it was almost the only path leading to what we, of course, thought could be expected of...

This patriotism which is not one *.
March 22, 2002... [W]e cannot do without patriotism in the modern world. Charles Taylor We have lost patriotism.... I believe the loss is great. John Schaar Patriotic stories have morals to tell, but they do not offer a moral argument as to why...

Public journalism and deliberative democracy *.
March 22, 2002... Public journalism is arguably the most significant reform movement in American journalism since the Progressive era. (1) Influenced by the ideals of deliberative democracy, it advocates changes in techniques of newsgathering and reporting to...

A Walzerian theory of exploitation.(theorist Michael Walzer)(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2002... Michael Walzer's Spheres of Justice remains a puzzle to commentators. Although described by its author as an egalitarian theory of distributive justice, several critics have argued that complex equality is neither strictly egalitarian nor an...

Health as citizenship narrative *.
March 22, 2002... The trends and implications of globalization have raised a number of new questions concerning the relationship between citizens and states, and have re-ignited a number of old ones. Health care (linked to employment status in the United States...

Poisoning their coffee: Louis Armstrong and civil rights *.
March 22, 2002... The true revolutionary is one that's not apparent. I mean the revolutionary that's waving a gun out in the streets is never effective; the police just arrest him. But the police don't ever know about the guy that smiles and ...

Gendered radicalism and civil society: what can democratic theorists learn from southern white ladies?(three books on women in civil society)
March 22, 2002... John Ehrenberg, Civil Society: The Critical History of Ah Idea. New York: New York University Press, 1999. Elizabeth R. Varon, We Mean to be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia. Chapel Hill: The UNC Press, 1998. ...