"The balls these people have is just incredible. Just even referring to Hobbes and Kant in such a simplistic and incoherent way is simply outrageous...In this context, Hobbes and Kant can't be more than a bunch of flash names in order to increase the leverage of Kagan's ludicrous ideas."

Exactly. As Runciman points out Kagan's labelling of this or that as "Kantian" or "Hobbesian" betrays absolutely no reading of Hobbes or Kant - and he certainly misrepresents both "grotesquely". It is absolutely despicable. The anti-thesis of the kind of close reading you get in Habermas (of basically everything that was ever written!), or even Chomsky of people like Dewey and A Smith. Close reading of these texts is required...

Thanks for english SPK links Phil!