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

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"Explores the theoretical and political implications of self-interest within the context of neoliberal political, theoretical, and methodological imperatives"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mathiowetz, Dean, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Political psychology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
Interêt personnel > Aspect politique.
Psychologie politique.
Self-interest > Political aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the politics of interest
  • Property, usury, and the juridical subject of interest
  • Appeals to interest in seventeenth-century England
  • Contesting sovereignty : interest in Thomas Hobbes
  • A historiography of liberal interest and the neoliberal self
  • Interest in political studies : action, grouping, and government
  • Epilogue : the language of interest as a critical theory of politics.

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