Powerless by Design - The Age of the International Community

"Michel Feher is a keen and lucid analyzer of doctrines and hypocrisies, and in "Powerless by Design" he has given us a truly valuable analysis of the doctrines and hypocrisies of right now."--Paul Berman, author of "A Tale of Two Utopias: The Political Journey of the Generation of 1968"

List of contents

Acknowledgments
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A Puzzling Chiasm
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A New Doctrine
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A Radical Critique
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1. Misguiding Definitions
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2. Self-serving motives
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3. Obfuscating policies
I. Humanitarianism
II. Diplomacy
III. Reconstruction
IV. Justice
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4. Self-fulfilling prophecies
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An Ambiguous Evolution
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An Unsettling Message
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An Emerging Polarization
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Notes

About the author

Michel Feher is Founding Editor and Publisher of Zone Books in New York. He most recently edited The Libertine Reader: Eroticism and Enlightenment in 18th-Century France.

Product details

• Authors: Michel Feher
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.2000
• EAN: 9780822326137
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2613-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 204 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 227 g
• Series: Public Planet Books
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education