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Author Mathiowetz, Dean, 1972-

Title Appeals to interest : language, contestation, and the shaping of political agency / Dean Mathiowetz
Published University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 228 pages)
Contents 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
Summary "Explores the theoretical and political implications of self-interest within the context of neoliberal political, theoretical, and methodological imperatives"--Provided by publisher
Analysis Levellers Rohan Mill
interest conceptual history Hobbes Hegel
neoliberalism
personality Roman Law
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Political psychology.
Self-interest -- Political aspects
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
Political psychology
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780271072173
0271072172
0271072164
9780271072166