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The Mythological State and its Empire: The International Recasting of Pension and Care Systems (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

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We see the modern State as the most rational form of governing yet devised, and one which properly recognises our inherent individual rights. However, as the histories of colonialism and imprisonment reveal, it is also an intruder into the lives of generally unwilling individuals, constraining rights.
This book looks beneath the contradiction to see an entity willingly sustained by all individuals and for which we forgo our responsibility to and for ourselves. We place ourselves in the hands of those interests that promise to deal with our fears and desires the best.
Probing the work of political thinkers from Hobbes to Rawls, the book discovers a State that is a real, mythological entity, spreading across social and geographic space and concerned first with satisfying our two passions. Understanding this mythology may allow reason to emerge from its service to fear and desire, so that the modern State could become truly modern.
This book will be of interest to scholars in Sociology, Politics, Philosophy, and Law.

Language: English

Pages: 306

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: August 19, 2008

The Mythological State and its Empire: The International Recasting of Pension and Care Systems (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

0/5 ( ratings)

We see the modern State as the most rational form of governing yet devised, and one which properly recognises our inherent individual rights. However, as the histories of colonialism and imprisonment reveal, it is also an intruder into the lives of generally unwilling individuals, constraining rights.
This book looks beneath the contradiction to see an entity willingly sustained by all individuals and for which we forgo our responsibility to and for ourselves. We place ourselves in the hands of those interests that promise to deal with our fears and desires the best.
Probing the work of political thinkers from Hobbes to Rawls, the book discovers a State that is a real, mythological entity, spreading across social and geographic space and concerned first with satisfying our two passions. Understanding this mythology may allow reason to emerge from its service to fear and desire, so that the modern State could become truly modern.
This book will be of interest to scholars in Sociology, Politics, Philosophy, and Law.

Language: English

Pages: 306

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: August 19, 2008

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