The Mythological State and Its Empire

ISBN-13: 9780415542395 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 294 str.

David Grant

Opis

Probing the work of key political thinkers from Hobbes to Rawls, this book examines the state as a real, mythological entity. It explores the contradictions of our views towards, and interactions with the state.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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.