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"Political Contempt and Religion" published on by Oxford University Press.

In her Vindication of the Rights of Men, Mary Wollstonecraft accused Edmund Burke of having contempt for his political opponents. Yet she herself expressed contempt for Burke and did so unapologetically. Readers have long regarded Wollstonecraft's decision to match Burke's contempt with one of her own as either a tactical blunder or evidence that she sought merely to ridicule Burke rather than argue with him. I offer an interpretation and defence of Wollstonecraft's rhetorical choices by situating the Vindication within eighteenth-century debates about the dangers of elite contempt and the best methods for stifling it. Rather than countering Burke's contempt with more of the same, Wollstonecraft's Vindication marks a distinction between two forms of contempt. The first expresses the false sense of superiority experienced by elites who owe their social elevation to arbitrary differences of wealth or family. As such, it represents both an abuse of privilege and an anxious recognition among elites that their claims to dignity may be unfounded. By contrast, the contempt Wollstonecraft directs at Burke represents a dignified withdrawal of esteem which signals that one's opponent is unworthy of the dignity to which they lay claim. If Wollstonecraft appeared to treat Burke abusively it was because she came to consider this second form of contempt as an antidote to the abusive contempt of the privileged. I conclude by spelling out some implications of Wollstonecraft's analysis of contempt for recent debates in political theory over the importance of dignity to democracy.

The effects of contemporary American cinema on the legal & political ideologies of state sovereignty are studied. An analysis of Australian & US responses to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks revealed two contradictory processes within the ideologies of state sovereignty; whereas states have attempted to expand their influence beyond their national borders, efforts have been made to solidify national boundaries. In addition, states' attempts to prevent terrorist attacks have led to increased domestic surveillance; this augmented internal scrutiny of a national citizenry is delineated as a form of sovereign contempt for the law. This emergence of sovereign contempt for the law within states that perceive themselves as targets for terrorist violence is also located in several contemporary American films, most notably Edward Zwick's The Siege (1998) & John Moore's Behind Enemy Lines (2001). The implications of this confluence of state sovereignty & biopolitics for future relations between the law & the state are also pondered. 8 References. J. W. Parker

Introduction -- Adversarial Attacks in Spanish Politics: Direct and Indirect Forms -- Of Toddy, Tongsan, and Bigfoot from Kinabatangan: The Use of Impolite Language in the Malaysian Parliament -- Challenging Etiquette: Insults, Sarcasm, and Irony in Japanese Politicians' Discourse -- Consistency and Change: Derogatory Language in Chinese Leaders' Speeches.

Introduction: an 'untimely' political thought for serious times -- The twentieth-century politics of contempt -- 'Undisguised influences' -- Tragic beginnings mystic 'communion' with nature -- An artist's point of view -- Rethinking participation beyond political 'romanticism' -- A stranger to the world of ressentiment -- Commencement of freedom -- Sisyphus or happiness in Hell -- Nothing is possible, everything is permitted -- The absurd and power -- Combat with nihilism -- Between Sade and the Dandy -- Conclusion

"YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED to be and appear before the Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives of the United States, or a duly appointed subcommittee thereof, on February 10 (Monday), 1958, at ten o'clock a.m. at City Council Chambers, City Hall, Gary, Indiana, then and there to testify touching matters of inquiry committed to said committee, and not to depart without leave of said committee." So began a decade of hardship for Ed and Jean Yellin and their three young children as the repressive weight of the U.S. government, caught up in the throes of McCarthyism, crashed down upon their careers, their daily household budget, and their relationships to colleagues, neighbors, and their country. In Contempt is a faithful, factual testament to the enduring quality of patriotic dissent in our evolving democracy—and a loving reconstruction of what it meant to be labeled "unAmerican" for defending the Constitution.

Argues against the uniform, global model of childhood of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and examines effect of neoliberal market policies that have weakened the resolve of national bureaucracies to address the problem of poverty. Some focus on Kerala state, India.

Western Self-Contempt -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation -- Introduction -- 1. Oikophobia in Ancient Greece -- 2. Oikophobia as Relativism -- 3. Oikophobia in Rome -- 4. The Role of Religion -- 5. Oikophobia in France -- 6. Oikophobia in Britain -- 7. Oikophobia as Positivism -- 8. Oikophobia in the United States: The Past -- 9. Cyclical and Progressive Theory -- 10. Oikophobia in the United States: The Present -- 11. The Confluence of the West -- Epilogue: On Personal Freedom -- Notes -- Index