Men and States: Rethinking the Domestic Analogy in a Global Age

ISBN-13: 9780230206816 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 174 str.

Chiara Bottici

Opis

Can we rule states through the same means that have been used to rule individuals? Men and States tackles this issue by analyzing the presuppositions of the domestic analogy and provides the tools to assess its validity in different contexts and theories.

Spis treści

Introduction PART I: THE DOMESTIC ANALOGY The Origins of the Debate Analogical Reasoning and the Domestic Analogy Disentangling the Domestic Analogy PART II: THE DOMESTIC ANALOGY IN MODERN POLITICAL THOUGHT Hobbes and the Realist Tradition Kant and the Idealist Tradition Grotius and the Rationalist Tradition PART III: THE DOMESTIC ANALOGY IN CONTEMPORARY THEORIES Neoidealism Neorealism Neoinstitutionalism Beyond the Three Traditions: Constructivism, Postmodernism, Feminism and Marxism Epilogue: The Domestic Analogy in the Global Age

O autorze

CHIARA BOTTICI is Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Florence, Italy. She is the author of A Philosophy of Political Myth and contributed, amongst others, to Iride, the Journal of Political Philosophy, the European Journal of Social Theory and the European Journal of Political Theory.