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Appeals to interest : language, contestation, and the shaping of political agency / Dean Mathiowetz.
LIBRA JA74.5 .M38 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mathiowetz, Dean, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Self-interest--Political aspects.
- Self-interest.
- Political psychology.
- Physical Description:
- x, 228 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2011]
- Summary:
- "Explores the theoretical and political implications of self-interest within the context of neoliberal political, theoretical, and methodological imperatives"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the politics of interest
- Property, usury, and the juridical subject of interest
- Appeals to interest in seventeenth-century England
- Contesting sovereignty : interest in Thomas Hobbes
- A historiography of liberal interest and the neoliberal self
- Interest in political studies : action, grouping, and government
- Epilogue : the language of interest as a critical theory of politics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271048505
- 0271048506
- OCLC:
- 664260317
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