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Beyond hegemony : towards a new philosophy of political legitimacy /
Since the Enlightenment, liberal democratic governments in Europe and North America have been compelled to secure the legitimacy of their authority by constructing rational states whose rationality is based on modern forms of law. The first serious challenge to liberal democratic practices of legal...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2010, ©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Since the Enlightenment, liberal democratic governments in Europe and North America have been compelled to secure the legitimacy of their authority by constructing rational states whose rationality is based on modern forms of law. The first serious challenge to liberal democratic practices of legal legitimacy comes in Marx's early writings on Rousseau and Hegel. In addition to examining Marx's critique of Kant, Hegel, and liberalism, Beyond Hegemony investigates the reasons for the authoritarianism and breakdown of state socialist governments in Russia and elsewhere claiming to put Marx's idea. |
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| Notas: | Originally published in hardback 2005. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 200 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781847793898 1847793894 0719060885 9780719060885 |