The mythological state and its empire [Electronic resource] /
David Grant.
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2009.
- Electronic resource 24 cm.
- Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 59 .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-284) and index.
The nature of political mythology -- Introduction -- The past as a figure of the present and future -- Establishment and refinement -- The Leviathan, the calling and their separation -- Imagining a general will -- The reason of Protestant politics -- Modernisation -- Reason and the myth of justice -- The liberalism of the market -- Freedom is the state -- Defending the state against scepticism -- Embodiment -- The state as civilisation -- Governmentality, the market and liberalism.