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