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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798074803321

Autore

Mathiowetz Dean <1972->

Titolo

Appeals to interest : language, contestation, and the shaping of political agency / / Dean Mathiowetz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

0-271-07216-4

0-271-07217-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 228 p. )

Disciplina

320.019

Soggetti

Political psychology

Self-interest - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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