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Article: War, peace & Jean Bethke Elshtain: a continuing exchange.
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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The unfair--indeed, quite offensive--criticisms lobbed at Jean Bethke Elshtain's Just War Against Terror by Stanley Hauerwas and Paul Griffiths ("War, Peace & Jean Bethke Elshtain," October 2003) reminded me of Friedrich Nietzsche's warning in Ecce Homo that the more humanitarian our values become, the more monstrous will be world politics. The authors' bizarre lucubrations on her book sounded more like a collaboration between Tertullian and Gore Vidal, with sectarian ecclesiology joining forces with supercilious anti-Americanism, than like an honest confrontation with Professor Elshtain's argument. Although one would never know it from reading their review alone, her ...
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Article: Elshtain, Jean Bethke. Jane Addams and the Dream of ...
History: Review of New Books;
June 22, 2002 ;
700+ words
... ... American Democracy is an exploration of democratic theory from the late nineteenth century to the Great Depression. Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago, wants us to ...
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