The Cunning Of Unreason [[electronic resource] ] : Making Sense of Politics
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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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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Basic Books, 2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (415 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 320 |
| Soggetto topico: | Political science |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | An essential guide to political theory by one of the world's eminent theorists. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Cunning Of Unreason |
| ISBN: | 0-465-01207-8 |
| 1-4294-8554-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910345140003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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