George Kateb
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1048742 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | George Kateb |
| NOMBRES | George |
| APELLIDO | Kateb |
| FIRMA | KATEB G |
| AFILIACIONES | Princeton University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 152 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1961 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Freedom of Association
Moral Dilemmas-An Introduction
Moral Dilemmas—An Introduction George Kateb (bio) we should be struck by the title of our panel, "moral dilemmas." At first sight it should seem odd that discussion of a particular disease lends itself to worry about moral dilemmas. After all, we usually expect that the only issue about a disease is medical: how to treat it. But as we know all too keenly, AIDS is no ordinary disease; it is not even an ordinary fatal disease. It is, rather, a dise…
Individuality and Loyalty to Truth under Tyranny
Individuality and Loyalty to Truth under Tyranny George Kateb (bio) a person can be loyal to a principle or betray it. a common criticism leveled at someone in authority, or in a position where people look to him or her for guidance or inspiration, is that this person has betrayed a principle that he or she had professed allegiance to and usually upheld but now, in especially difficult circumstances, has abandoned. My chief concern is with loyalt…
Utopia
On Being Watched and Known
Si le droit a la vie privee est un droit fondamental, il est menace par la proliferation des pratiques de surveillance et d'espionnage, de plus en plus envahissantes avec le progres technologique, qui les rend en meme temps de plus en plus difficiles a constater et a cerner
Patriotism and Other Mistakes
George Kateb has been one of the most respected and influential political theorists of the last quarter century. His work stands apart from that of many of his contemporaries and resists easy summary. In these essays Kateb often admonishes himself, in Socratic fashion, to keep political argument as far as possible negative : to be willing to assert what we are not, and what we will not do, and to build modestly from there some account of what we …
Can Cultures Be Judged?
Utopia
Utopia
Lincoln's Political Thought
At the center of Lincoln’s political thought and career is an intense passion for equality that runs so deep in the speeches, messages, and letters that it has the force of religious conviction for Lincoln. George Kateb examines these writings to reveal that this passion explains Lincoln’s reverence for both the Constitution and the Union.
Lincoln's Political Thought
Human Dignity
Human Dignity
Existential Democratic Individuality
Diego Rossello: So, I have a first question, just to break the ice a little bit, and it is a very open one.How did you become interested in political theory?George Kateb: Yes, I think that question I can answer more or less clearly.I entered Columbia University in the fall of 1948, and I graduated, therefore, in the class of 1952.All my degrees are from Columbia.I had two freshmen teachers who made a great impression on me.The first was Mark Van …
Locke and the Politicai Origins of Secularism
The paper tries to show the importance of the writings of John Locke in preparing the way for secularism. He provides a theory for disentangling religion and the state for several main reasons, including the avoidance of religious persecution of minorties; the avoidance of civil strife; and the need to leave it to individuals to work out their own salvation by exercising their conscience free of state interference. Locke is a creative theorist; h…
Morality and Self-Sacrifice, Martyrdom and Self-Denial
George Kateb Morality and Self-Sacrifice, Martyrdom and Self-Denial MY CHIEF IN TEREST IS TO EXPLORE THE QUESTION, IS SELF-SACRIFICE A necessary part of morality? Think of a person who gives away millions of dollars to those in need while keeping millions for himself. He does not appear to sacrifice anything, but he acts morally by preventing or alleviating an appreciable amount of suffering. He could prevent even more by giving more millions awa…
Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss: An Introduction to His Thought and Intellectual Legacy. By Thomas Pangle. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 200p. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaism. By Steven B. Smith. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 268p. $32.50 cloth, $18.00 paper. The Truth about Leo Strauss: Political Philosophy and American Democracy. By Catherine and Michael Zuckert. Chicago: University of…
The Novelty of the Iraq War
Research Article| January 01 2007 The Novelty of the Iraq War George Kateb George Kateb Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2007) 16 (2): 25–31. https://doi.org/10.2307/20711263 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation George Kateb; The Novelty of the Iraq War. The Good Society 1 January 2007; 16 (2): 25–31. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20711263 Download citation file: Zoter…
Punishment and the Spirit of Democracy
George Kateb Punishment and the Spirit of Democracy P U N IS H M E N T TH A T IS A D M IN IS T E R E D D IRECTLY BY T H E STATE IS ONE o f those subjects that are hard to pin down. There is no theoretical defense of the reasons for punishm ent that wins common assent. All the principal justifications for it have a long history, but their inter relationship and their comparative im portance differ from thinker to thinker. In any given analysis, f…
Existential Values in Arendt's Treatment of Evil and Morality
George Kateb Existential Values in Arendt's Treatment of Evil and Morality EXISTENTIAL VALUES DOMINATE HANNAH ARENDT'S POLITICAL THEORY.* The result is that morality often ends up either subordinate in impor tance to existential values or sidelined by them. Morality must struggle to be heard. Most famously, her espousal of political action grows not out of moral concern, but out of her existential values, which politi cal action is intended to …
Is John Gray a Nihilist
A nihilist is one who wants nothingness in the place of what is. Does John Gray in his book, Straw Dogs, wish the end of the world? No: but he does contemplate with calm and even some pleasure the end of the human race, or at the least its diminishment to a small fraction of its current numbers. He is appalled by the irrepressible human destructiveness of nature, whether animals, plants or inanimate formations, and finds in this destructiveness t…
Flathman's Pluralism
Research Article| January 01 2006 Flathman's Pluralism George Kateb George Kateb Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2006) 15 (3): 11–14. https://doi.org/10.2307/25702827 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation George Kateb; Flathman's Pluralism. The Good Society 1 January 2006; 15 (3): 11–14. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/25702827 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Ma…
A Life of Fear
George Kateb A Life of Fear W E ARE CAUGHT UP IN A COURSE OF EVENTS THAT ARE NEARLY AS opaque in motivation as they are dramatic and often tragic in their effects. The United States answered jihad by carrying the war on terror to Afghanistan, but then seemed to veer by invading and occupying Iraq. We cannot say now how the sequence will develop. The situa tion must change; it may change rapidly or seem to, and then change again. Hunches about th…
Courage as a Virtue
COURAGE IS AN IMPOSSIBLE SUBJECT. NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE SAYS, people (including myself) will always respect, even admire, courage regardless of the purpose or the cause in which it is displayed. One of the worst reproaches in the world is to be called a coward, accused of lacking in courage again, almost no matter what the purpose or cause. It is merely clumsy propaganda (though clever in intention) to label as cowards the suicide hijackers who d…
On Liberty
Hannah Arendt
Patriotism and Other Mistakes
George Kateb has been one of the most respected and influential political theorists of the last quarter century. His work stands apart from that of many of his contemporaries and resists easy summary. In these essays Kateb often admonishes himself, in Socratic fashion, to keep political argument as far as possible negative : to be willing to assert what we are not, and what we will not do, and to build modestly from there some account of what we …
II. Democratic Individuality and the Claims of Politics
Utopia and Its Enemies
Aestheticism and Morality
It is only through the duality of the `masculine' and the `feminine' that the `human' finds full realization. Pope John Paul II See the power of national emblems. Some stars, lilies, leopards, a crescent, a lion, an eagle, or other figure, which came into credit, God knows how, on an old rag of bunting, blowing in the wind, on a fort, at the ends of the earth, shall make the blood tingle under the rudest or the most conventional exterior. The peo…
Hobbes and the Irrationality of Politics
IT IS COMMONLY UNDERSTOOD that concern with civil war dominates Hobbes's political theory. A few years before the Restoration, he said: all such calamities as may be avoided by human industry, arise from war, but from civil war.' His work is held together by the effort to understand the causes of civil war and to offer proposals for its long-term prevention. In Leviathani, his one political work written in the midst of civil war, Hobbes also hint…
Freedom and Worldliness in the Thought of Hannah Arendt
The Adequacy of the Canon
Walt Whitman and the Culture of Democracy
I THINK THAT WALT WHITMAN a great philosopher of democracy. Indeed, he may be the greatest. As Thoreau said, Whitman is apparently the greatest democrat the world has ever seen.' To put it more academically, he perhaps the greatest philosopher of the culture of democracy. He writes the best phrases and sentences about democracy. By culture, I mean these things especially. First, culture (or can be) the soil for the creation of new works of high a…
Democratic Individualism and Its Critics
Where democracy exists, there will be individualism. The historical record shows that democracy inevitably engenders individualism. This proposition will be challenged by those who think either that individualism can obtain in nondemocratic cultures or that democracy can exist without engendering individualism. The paper rejects both contentions. The defining characteristic of democracy is freedom, and the oldest democratic concept of freedom is …
Locke and the Politicai Origins of Secularism
The paper tries to show the importance of the writings of John Locke in preparing the way for secularism. He provides a theory for disentangling religion and the state for several main reasons, including the avoidance of religious persecution of minorties; the avoidance of civil strife; and the need to leave it to individuals to work out their own salvation by exercising their conscience free of state interference. Locke is a creative theorist; h…
Thucydides' History
Aspects of Rousseau's Political Thought
Existential Values in Arendt's Treatment of Evil and Morality
George Kateb Existential Values in Arendt's Treatment of Evil and Morality EXISTENTIAL VALUES DOMINATE HANNAH ARENDT'S POLITICAL THEORY.* The result is that morality often ends up either subordinate in impor tance to existential values or sidelined by them. Morality must struggle to be heard. Most famously, her espousal of political action grows not out of moral concern, but out of her existential values, which politi cal action is intended to …
Courage as a Virtue
COURAGE IS AN IMPOSSIBLE SUBJECT. NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE SAYS, people (including myself) will always respect, even admire, courage regardless of the purpose or the cause in which it is displayed. One of the worst reproaches in the world is to be called a coward, accused of lacking in courage again, almost no matter what the purpose or cause. It is merely clumsy propaganda (though clever in intention) to label as cowards the suicide hijackers who d…
Response to Robert Gooding‐Williams
The Condition of Political Theory
The Majority Principle
A reading of John Calhoun's speeches, state papers, and formal writings leaves a clear impression of masterly intellect.1 From his earliest days as congressman from South Carolina to his last years as genius of the slave states, Calhoun spoke and wrote with a rare force and elegance. One might almost say that his words were in excess of the occasions; he philosophized, he generalized, he expressed himself as if his audience were made up of politi…
Aspects of Rousseau's Political Thought
Utopia and Its Enemies
Thucydides' History
The Majority Principle
A reading of John Calhoun's speeches, state papers, and formal writings leaves a clear impression of masterly intellect.1 From his earliest days as congressman from South Carolina to his last years as genius of the slave states, Calhoun spoke and wrote with a rare force and elegance. One might almost say that his words were in excess of the occasions; he philosophized, he generalized, he expressed himself as if his audience were made up of politi…
Politics and Modernity
George Kateb, Politics and Modernity: The Strategies of Desperation, New Literary History, Vol. 3, No. 1, Modernism and Postmodernism: Inquiries, Reflections, and Speculations (Autumn, 1971), pp. 93-111
Utopia
Kateb, George. Utopia. New York: Atherton, 1971, Kateb, George. Utopia and Its Enemies. New York: Schocken, 1972, Richter, Peyton E. Utopias: Social Ideals and Communal Experiments. Boston: Holbrook, 1971 and Roberts, Ron E. The New Communes. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice—Hall, 1971 Get access Gordon C. Zahn Gordon C. Zahn University of Massachusetts at Boston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Reli…
Freedom and Worldliness in the Thought of Hannah Arendt
The Condition of Political Theory
The Moral Distinctiveness of Representative Democracy
II. Democratic Individuality and the Claims of Politics
Hannah Arendt
Hobbes and the Irrationality of Politics
IT IS COMMONLY UNDERSTOOD that concern with civil war dominates Hobbes's political theory. A few years before the Restoration, he said: all such calamities as may be avoided by human industry, arise from war, but from civil war.' His work is held together by the effort to understand the causes of civil war and to offer proposals for its long-term prevention. In Leviathani, his one political work written in the midst of civil war, Hobbes also hint…
Walt Whitman and the Culture of Democracy
I THINK THAT WALT WHITMAN a great philosopher of democracy. Indeed, he may be the greatest. As Thoreau said, Whitman is apparently the greatest democrat the world has ever seen.' To put it more academically, he perhaps the greatest philosopher of the culture of democracy. He writes the best phrases and sentences about democracy. By culture, I mean these things especially. First, culture (or can be) the soil for the creation of new works of high a…
Emerson and Self-Reliance
Chapter 1 Self-Reliance and the Life of the Mind Chapter 2 Redeeming the Frustrations of Experience Chapter 3 The Question of Religiousness Chapter 4 Friendship and Love Chapter 5 Individuality and Identity Chapter 6 Self-Reliance, Politics, and Society
Response to Robert Gooding‐Williams
Aestheticism and Morality
It is only through the duality of the `masculine' and the `feminine' that the `human' finds full realization. Pope John Paul II See the power of national emblems. Some stars, lilies, leopards, a crescent, a lion, an eagle, or other figure, which came into credit, God knows how, on an old rag of bunting, blowing in the wind, on a fort, at the ends of the earth, shall make the blood tingle under the rudest or the most conventional exterior. The peo…
Wolin as a Critic of Democracy
The Adequacy of the Canon
Ideology and Storytelling
ONE of the most striking features of Hannah Arendt’s analysis of totalitarianism is the prominent role she gives ideology. Even before she added the chapter, “Ideology and Terror: A Novel Form of Government” (first published in English in 1953) to the second edition of The Origins of Totalitarianism (1958), she had extensively discussed (in the first edition, 1951) the work that ideology did in making totalitarian movements and dictatorships succ…
On Liberty
Democratic Individualism and Its Critics
Where democracy exists, there will be individualism. The historical record shows that democracy inevitably engenders individualism. This proposition will be challenged by those who think either that individualism can obtain in nondemocratic cultures or that democracy can exist without engendering individualism. The paper rejects both contentions. The defining characteristic of democracy is freedom, and the oldest democratic concept of freedom is …
Undermining the Constitution
THIS paper was conceived, titled, and partly drafted before September 11, 2001. What I am about to say does not, for the most part, deal directly with that awful day and the numerous consequences that have flowed from it, especially the American war in Afghanistan and the American invasion of Iraq. But as I go along, points that I make are relevant to our present situation, and some of them were actually prompted by September 11 and its continuin…
A Life of Fear
George Kateb A Life of Fear W E ARE CAUGHT UP IN A COURSE OF EVENTS THAT ARE NEARLY AS opaque in motivation as they are dramatic and often tragic in their effects. The United States answered jihad by carrying the war on terror to Afghanistan, but then seemed to veer by invading and occupying Iraq. We cannot say now how the sequence will develop. The situa tion must change; it may change rapidly or seem to, and then change again. Hunches about th…
Courage as a Virtue
COURAGE IS AN IMPOSSIBLE SUBJECT. NO MATTER WHAT ANYONE SAYS, people (including myself) will always respect, even admire, courage regardless of the purpose or the cause in which it is displayed. One of the worst reproaches in the world is to be called a coward, accused of lacking in courage again, almost no matter what the purpose or cause. It is merely clumsy propaganda (though clever in intention) to label as cowards the suicide hijackers who d…
Is John Gray a Nihilist
A nihilist is one who wants nothingness in the place of what is. Does John Gray in his book, Straw Dogs, wish the end of the world? No: but he does contemplate with calm and even some pleasure the end of the human race, or at the least its diminishment to a small fraction of its current numbers. He is appalled by the irrepressible human destructiveness of nature, whether animals, plants or inanimate formations, and finds in this destructiveness t…
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