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Beyond hegemony : Towards a new philosophy of political legitimacy /

Since the Enlightenment, liberal democrat 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 le...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schecter, Darrow (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico Capítulo de libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Liberalism and discourses of legality: limiting human agency in the name of negative liberty
  • 2. Democracy and discourses of legitimacy: liberating human agency from liberal legal form
  • 3. Inside the liberal machine
  • 4. Idealism, legality and reconciliation with external nature
  • 5. Materialism, legitimacy and reconciliation with human nature
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.