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Appeals to Interest Language, Contestation, and the Shaping of Political Agency.

It has become a commonplace assumption in modern political debate that white and rural working- and middle-class citizens in the United States who have been rallied by Republicans in the "culture wars" to vote Republican have been voting "against their interests." But what, exact...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mathiowetz, Dean
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park : Penn State University Press, 2015.
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  • Cover Page
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Introduction
  • What's the Matter with Interest?
  • Theorizing an Alternative: Interest as Juridical and Plural
  • Losing Interest in Political Studies
  • In the Beginning Was the Word
  • Language, Bodies, Agency
  • Recovering the Plurality of the Present
  • The Plan of the Book
  • 2 Property, Usury, and the Juridical Subject of Interest
  • Displacing Humanistic "Interest"
  • History, Heterogeneity, and the Word
  • Id Quod Interest and Hegel's Theory of Personality in Property and Contract
  • Usury and Interest
  • Categorical Erosion, Inflation, and the Subject of Interest
  • Interested Agency
  • 3 Appeals to Interest in Seventeenth-Century England
  • Medieval Provocations
  • Recovering Interest as Conflict, Action, and Constitution
  • "Machiavellian" Reason-of-State and the Citizen
  • Juridical and Plural Interest in Rohan and Nedham
  • Theoretical Reflections on Self and Sovereignty
  • Interesting England
  • Democratic Traces in the Language of Interest
  • 4 Contesting Sovereignty
  • Reading Interest in(to) Hobbes
  • Theorizing Interest in the Idiom of Hobbes
  • Hobbes as Social Scientist
  • Self-Preservation as an Interest
  • Contested Interest and Modernity
  • 5 A Historiography of Liberal Interest and the Neoliberal Self
  • Neoliberalism: Writing the Juridical Out of Political Thought
  • Interest, Neoliberal and Otherwise
  • A Critical Historiography of "Interest"
  • Classical Liberalism: J. S. Mill
  • Interest, Legal Autonomy, and Equality
  • "Interest" Against Neoliberalism
  • 6 Interest in Political Studies
  • Behavioralism's Stubborn Legacy
  • Interest in The Process of Government
  • Interest in The Governmental Process
  • Objectivity and the Contestability of Interests
  • Interest in The Terms of Political Discourse
  • Interest as Constitution
  • Juridical and Plural Interest in Political Inquiry
  • Conclusion: Appeals to Interest as Action, Grouping, and Government
  • Epilogue
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • Back Cover