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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schecter, Darrow
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2010, ©2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 9780719060885; 9780719060885; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Liberalism and discourses of legality: limitinghuman agency in the name of negative liberty; Chapter 2: Democracy and discourses of legitimacy:liberating human agency from liberal legal form; Chapter 3:Inside the liberal machine; Chapter 4: Idealism, legalityand reconciliation with external nature; Chapter 5: Materialism, legitimacyand reconciliation with human nature; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.