Beyond hegemony [[electronic resource] ] : towards a new philosophy of political legitimacy / / Darrow Schecter

• Autore: Schecter Darrow
• Pubblicazione: Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2010, c2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (213 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.1
• Soggetto topico: Hegemony; Legitimacy of governments
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: First published in hardback 2005.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 9780719060885; 9780719060885; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Liberalism and discourses of legality: limitinghuman agency in the name of negative liberty; Chapter 2: Democracy and discourses of legitimacy:liberating human agency from liberal legal form; Chapter 3:Inside the liberal machine; Chapter 4: Idealism, legalityand reconciliation with external nature; Chapter 5: Materialism, legitimacyand reconciliation with human nature; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Since the Enlightenment, liberal democratic governments in Europe and North America have been compelled to secure the legitimacy of their authority by constructing rational states whose rationality is based on modern forms of law. The first serious challenge to liberal democratic practices of legal legitimacy comes in Marx's early writings on Rousseau and Hegel. In addition to examining Marx's critique of Kant, Hegel, and liberalism, Beyond Hegemony investigates the reasons for the authoritarianism and breakdown of state socialist governments in Russia and elsewhere claiming to put Marx's idea
• Titolo autorizzato: Beyond hegemony
• ISBN: 1-84779-389-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462129103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II