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1 online resource (204 p.) |
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Cover Page -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- What's the Matter with Interest? -- Theorizing an Alternative: Interest as Juridical and Plural -- Losing Interest in Political Studies -- In the Beginning Was the Word -- Language, Bodies, Agency -- Recovering the Plurality of the Present -- The Plan of the Book -- 2 Property, Usury, and the Juridical Subject of Interest -- Displacing Humanistic "Interest" -- History, Heterogeneity, and the Word -- Id Quod Interest and Hegel's Theory of Personality in Property and Contract |
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Usury and Interest -- Categorical Erosion, Inflation, and the Subject of Interest -- Interested Agency -- 3 Appeals to Interest in Seventeenth-Century England -- Medieval Provocations -- Recovering Interest as Conflict, Action, and Constitution -- "Machiavellian" Reason-of-State and the Citizen -- Juridical and Plural Interest in Rohan and Nedham -- Theoretical Reflections on Self and Sovereignty -- Interesting England -- Democratic Traces in the Language of Interest -- 4 Contesting Sovereignty -- Reading Interest in(to) Hobbes -- Theorizing Interest in the Idiom of Hobbes |
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Hobbes as Social Scientist -- Self-Preservation as an Interest -- Contested Interest and Modernity -- 5 A Historiography of Liberal Interest and the Neoliberal Self -- Neoliberalism: Writing the Juridical Out of Political Thought -- Interest, Neoliberal and Otherwise -- A Critical Historiography of "Interest" -- Classical Liberalism: J. S. Mill -- Interest, Legal Autonomy, and Equality -- "Interest" Against Neoliberalism -- 6 Interest in Political Studies -- Behavioralism's Stubborn Legacy -- Interest in The Process of Government -- Interest in The Governmental Process |
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Objectivity and the Contestability of Interests -- Interest in The Terms of Political Discourse -- Interest as Constitution -- Juridical and Plural Interest in Political Inquiry -- Conclusion: Appeals to Interest as Action, Grouping, and Government -- Epilogue -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Summary |
It has become a commonplace assumption in modern political debate that white and rural working- and middle-class citizens in the United States who have been rallied by Republicans in the "culture wars" to vote Republican have been voting "against their interests." But what, exactly, are these "interests" that these voters are supposed to have been voting against? It reveals a lot about the role of the notion of interest in political debate today to realize that these "interests" are taken for granted to be the narrowly self-regarding, primarily economic "interests" of the individual. Exposing and contesting this view of interests, Dean Mathiowetz finds in the language of interest an already potent critique of neoliberal political, theoretical, and methodological imperatives--and shows how such a critique has long been active in the term's rich history. Through an innovative historical investigation of the language of interest, Mathiowetz shows that appeals to interest are always politically contestable claims about "who" somebody is--and a provocation to action on behalf of that "who." Appeals to Interest exposes the theoretical and political costs of our widespread denial of this crucial role of interest-talk in the constitution of political identity, in political theory and social science alike |
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Levellers Rohan Mill |
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interest conceptual history Hobbes Hegel |
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neoliberalism |
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personality Roman Law |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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In English |
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Political psychology.
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Self-interest -- Political aspects
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Political psychology
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780271072166 |
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0271072164 |
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9780271072173 |
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0271072172 |
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