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200 14$aThe Cunning Of Unreason$b[electronic resource] $eMaking Sense of Politics
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aNew York $cBasic Books$d2008
215   $a1 online resource (415 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-465-01748-7 
327   $aContents; 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
327   $aBritish 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
327   $aIncomprehension 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
330   $aAn essential guide to political theory by one of the world's eminent theorists.
606   $aPolitical science
615  4$aPolitical science.
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