This paper will discuss how the Financial Crisis of 2008 has thrown neoliberalism into a deep legitimation crisis. Over the past four decades the neoliberal ethic of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher has permeated American life both public and private. The principles of the laissez faire...

My article compares and contrasts two critical approaches to the politically liberal, politically secular modern state: the historicist approach of Bockenforde and the Foucault inspired post-colonial, genealogical approach of theorists such as Asad, Cavanaugh, Danchin, Hurd, and Mahmood. For...