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The mythological state and its empire / David Grant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grant, David, 1947-
- Series:
- Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 59.
- Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 59
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- State, The.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 293 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2009.
- Contents:
- The nature of political mythology
- Introduction
- The past as a figure of the present and future
- Establishment and refinement
- The Leviathan, the calling and their separation
- Imagining a general will
- The reason of Protestant politics
- Modernisation
- Reason and the myth of justice
- The liberalism of the market
- Freedom is the state
- Defending the state against scepticism
- Embodiment
- The state as civilisation
- Governmentality, the market and liberalism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-284) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415988759
- 0415988756
- OCLC:
- 212908819
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