David Grant

The Mythological State and its Empire

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Probing the work of key political thinkers from Hobbes to Rawls, this book examines the state as a real, mythological entity. This groundbreaking work explores the contradictions of our views towards, and interactions with the state and will be of interest to scholars of sociology, politics, philosophy and law.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9780415988759
• ISBN-10: 0415988756
• Artikelnr.: 23605740

Autorenporträt

David Grant received his PhD at the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales. He currently works as a government consultant in Sydney.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Acknowledgments. Part I: The Nature of Political Mythology 1.
Introduction 2. The Past as a Figure of the Present and Future Part II:
Establishment and Refinement 3. The Leviathan, the Calling and their
Separation 4. Imagining a General Will 5. The Reason of Protestant Politics
Part III: Modernisation 6. Reason and the Myth of Justice 7. The Liberalism
of the Market 8. Freedom is the State 9. Defending the State against
Scepticism Part IV: Embodiment 10. The State as Civilisation 11.
Governmentality, The Market and Liberalism. Notes. References. Index.