Aug 14, 2007

The right


So if we accept that history has come to an end, what does this mean for the right? We know that it's a death sentence for socialism. But so it is, obviously, for most forms of conservatism.  And once placed in their graves, they too are available for new uses.

Aug 8, 2007

Rethinking the Right

First very provisional thoughts for a course at the Cornell School.
The point would be to reinterpret critiques of state sovereignty which do not appeal to popular emancipation.
Non-emancipatory critiques of state sovereignty. Traditionally these have been Catholic or Christian of course.
Here is one genealogy
Rethinking the right:
a non-juring text
de Maistre
Whately?
Coleridge?
Eliot
Benjamin's critique of violence? (Sorel, Derrida on force of law?)
Schmitt
Strauss

there are also other right wing genealogies:
Hume, Burke (this course will help us understand Burke better).
Carlyle, Nietzsche, Hulme, Heidegger