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The mythological state and its empire David Grant. [Electronic resource] /

By: Grant, David, 1947-.
Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 59. Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge, 2009Description: Electronic resource 24 cm.ISBN: 9780415988759; 0415988756; 9780203891988 (ebook).Subject(s): State, The | Political science -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 320.1 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
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.
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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.

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