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