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Autore |
Dunn John |
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Titolo |
The Cunning Of Unreason [[electronic resource] ] : Making Sense of Politics |
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New York, : Basic Books, 2008 |
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0-465-01207-8 |
1-4294-8554-X |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (415 p.) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; PART I; 1. Starting Out; Defining the Task; Why Is There Politics at All? Four Answers; The Centrality of Rule and its Sources; 2. The State; Explaining and Appraising Rule; The Implications of the Explanations; The State as Idea and as Fact; Power and Authority; Conclusion; 3. Political Understanding; Political Understanding as Guide to Political Judgment?; Understanding Human Interests; Understanding States; Law's Empire; Summary; PART II; 4. Understanding the Constraints on State Power: The Case of Britain since 1979 |
British Politics since the Coming of Mrs. Thatcher as an Explanatory Problem5. The Centrality of Judgment; Necessity, Normative Rationality and Practical Judgment; The Platonic Riposte; Explaining Unfathomable Choices: Sociology versus Epistemology; 6. The Modern Representative Democratic Republic; An Hegemonic State Form?; Representative Democracy and Economic Policy; Reorienting; 7. Crisis, Routine and Political Integrity; Focusing the Problem; Two Perspectives on the Modern Democratic Republic; Riding Free; 8. Explaining the Failings of the Modern Republic: Platonism versus Sociology |
Incomprehension or Context?Crisis and Routine Again; PART III; 9. Starting Again; The Components of Politics; Looking for Political Understanding; 10. Doing Better: Fantasy and Judgment; Overt Resources and Covert Possibilities; Two Polarities: Voluntarism and Fatalism, Routine and Crisis; Transcending Politics?: Three Strategies; Notes; Bibliography |
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