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The Mythological State and its Empire

By David Grant Copyright 2009
306 Pages
by Routledge

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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... Read more

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.

Biography

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.