"Imagining Interest in Political Thought" argues that monistic interest--or the shaping and coordination of different pursuits through imagined economies of self and public interest--constitutes the end and means of contemporary liberal government. The paradigmatic theorist of monistic interest is the English political philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), whose concept of utilitarianism calls for maximization of pleasure by both individuals and the state. Stephen G. Engelmann contends that commentators have too quickly dismissed Bentham's philosophy as a crude materialism with antiliberal...
"Imagining Interest in Political Thought" argues that monistic interest--or the shaping and coordination of different pursuits through imagined econom...
"Imagining Interest in Political Thought" argues that monistic interest--or the shaping and coordination of different pursuits through imagined economies of self and public interest--constitutes the end and means of contemporary liberal government. The paradigmatic theorist of monistic interest is the English political philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), whose concept of utilitarianism calls for maximization of pleasure by both individuals and the state. Stephen G. Engelmann contends that commentators have too quickly dismissed Bentham's philosophy as a crude materialism with antiliberal...
"Imagining Interest in Political Thought" argues that monistic interest--or the shaping and coordination of different pursuits through imagined econom...
