Defending Ideals

Drucilla Cornell is Professor of Political Science, Women's Studies, and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. She is also a playwright and the author, most recently, of Between Women and Generations: Legacies ofDignity (2002).

• Preface: Why We Need Ideals1. Living and Dying in Iraq. Killing Talk and the Limits of Just War2. Worlds Apart. Perpetual Peace and Infinite War3. Variegated Visions of Humanity: John Rawls' The Law of Peoples4. Developing Human Capabilities5. Civilization, Progress, and Beyond6. Reconsidering Nationalisms. Feminism and Anti-Militariest Ideals7. Other Family Stories: The Politics and Ethics of Transnational AdoptionBibliography