The Liberalism of Fear and the Counterrevolutionary Project

Ethics and International Affairs

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 118-123

  Meister, Robert ^a  

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EID: 84937375657     PISSN: 08926794     EISSN: 17477093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7093.2002.tb00402.x     Document Type: Letter

References (21)

1. Robert Meister, “Ways of Winning: The Costs of Moral Victory in Transitional Regimes” (prepared for the conference, “Forgiveness: Traditions and Implications,” Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center, University of Utah, April 13–15, 2000).
2. Judith N. Shklar,“Putting Cruelty First,” in Ordinary Vices (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984), pp. 7–44.
3. Judith N. Shklar, “The Liberalism of Fear”, in Nancy L. Rosenblum, ed., Liberalism and the Moral Life (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989), p. 29.
4. See also Shklar, “Putting Cruelty First,” esp. pp. 24ff.
5. As Shklar puts it: “Somehow injustice and justice are not psychologically complementary, nor are they exact opposites.” Judith N. Shklar, The Faces of Injustice (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), p. 101.
6. See Judith N. Shklar, “A Life of Learning”, in Bernard Yack, ed., Liberalism Without Illusions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).
7. Shklar's dissertation advisor, Carl Friedrich, was a leader in this movement. See, e.g., Carl J. Friedrich, ed., Totalitarianism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954)
8. Carl J. Friedrich and Zbigniew Brzezinski, Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956).
9. The younger generation of Shklar's colleagues when she joined the Harvard faculty contributed to this line of thought. See, e.g., Adam Ulam, The New Face of Soviet Totalitarianism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963)
10. Zbigniew Brzezinski and Samuel P. Huntington, Political Power: USA/USSR (New York: Viking Press, 1964).
11. See Judith N. Shklar, American Citizenship: The Quest for Inclusion (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991).
12. Shklar, “The Liberalism of Fear”, p. 21.
13. Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political, trans. George Schwab (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), p. 71.
14. Shklar, “Putting Cruelty First”, pp. 15–23, esp. p. 21.
15. For a contrasting view, see Bruce Ackerman, The Future of Liberal Revolution (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992).
16. For a valuable study of the hypocrisies concealed by this moral logic, see Michel Feher, Powerless by Design: The Age of the International Community (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000).
17. Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), p. 9.
18. Lauren Berlant, “The Subject of True Feeling: Pain, Privacy, and Politics,” in Austin Sarat and Thomas R. Kearns, eds., Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics and the Law (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991), pp. 72–73.
19. Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics and the Law, p. 53.
20. Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics and the Law, p. 54.
21. Cultural Pluralism, Identity Politics and the Law, pp. 76, 78. (The preceding three paragraphs are adapted from Meister, “Ways of Winning.”)