03070nam 22005653u 450 991034514000332120230124182653.00-465-01207-81-4294-8554-X(CKB)1000000000475870(EBL)952705(OCoLC)817927145(SSID)ssj0000133871(PQKBManifestationID)12002919(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000133871(PQKBWorkID)10046347(PQKB)11053139(MiAaPQ)EBC952705(Au-PeEL)EBL952705(CaONFJC)MIL873814(MiAaPQ)EBC30467879(Au-PeEL)EBL30467879(EXLCZ)99100000000047587020130418d2008|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe Cunning Of Unreason[electronic resource] Making Sense of Politics1st ed.New York Basic Books20081 online resource (415 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-465-01748-7 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 1979British 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 SociologyIncomprehension 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; BibliographyAn essential guide to political theory by one of the world's eminent theorists.Political sciencePolitical science.320Dunn John115364AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910345140003321The Cunning Of Unreason2565085UNINA