Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen
- Contents
- Review Quotes

1 From Shock to Terror
2 From Terror to War
3 The Circle of War and Emergency
4 The Regeneration of Emergency through Violence
5 The Cold War Is Not Over
1 The Cold War Today
2 Today’s Cold War in the System of Civic War
3 Civic War and the Monocratic Tendency
4 Two Poles of Power: Monocratic Omnipotence and Jeffersonian Justification
5 Phases of Communication: Secrets, Lies, and Publicness
6 The Export of "Moral Clarity"
7 The Cold War Comes Home: The Revival of Reaganism
8 The Breeding Ground of Monocracy
9 The Constitution of Power and the Corruption of the Citizen after September 11th
Notes
Works Cited
Index
“Just when it seemed as if there was nothing more to say about fear, terror, and emergency after 9/11, this original diagnosis and bracing call for a reassertion of the powers of citizenship offers a restorative work of democratic theory. Assertive and insistent, the eloquence of Civic War and the Corruption of the Citizen compels attention and demands an active response.”
“This is among the most important analyses that I’ve seen of what has happened to politics in the wake of the September 11 attacks. No other thinker has so clearly articulated how both terrorism and the response to it threaten democracy by suppressing contentious political speech. Meyers’s argument is timely, impressively learned, and compelling.”
History: American History
Philosophy: Philosophy of Society
Political Science: American Government and Politics | Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, and International Relations | Political Behavior and Public Opinion | Political and Social Theory
Sociology: Individual, State and Society
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