The Attraction of Opposites

. . . by focusing on the phenomenon of dualism in social arrangements and social thought, the volume raises important issues concerning the interrelationship between thought and experience, cosmology and society, and it provides a way for treating these issues that is neither unduly formalistic nor simply empirical. Those interested in African cosmologies would do well to consider it both for its ideas and for its evidence." — Journal of Rel. Afr.

". . . this book has made a great leap forward in the debate on democratic defenses. Somehow however, the developments after 9/112 have raised new questions that this book hardly touches on. Whether or not the defense of democracy would lead us to Carl Schmitt's authoritarian solution, most notably. If that happens hate discourse and terrorism would have achieved their goal of transforming liberal democracies into very illiberal or even fascist societies." — Alberto Spektorowski, Tel Aviv University, e-Extreme, February 18, 2003