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Author Baltes, John, author.

Title The empire of habit : John Locke, discipline, and the origins of liberalism / John Baltes
Published Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2016

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Contents Frontcover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Locke on Religious Crisis and Civil War: Nominalism, Skepticism, and the Essay in Context; Locke's Moral Critique; Ethical Naturalism and Generous Theism; Conclusion: "The Law of Fashion"; 2 Locke's Inverted Quarantine: Discipline, Panopticism, and the Making of the Liberal Subject; Minds like Brooks; Lockean Panopticism; Disciplinary Psychology; Center and Periphery; Conclusion: Sticky Subjects; 3 Locke's Labor Loosed: Discipline and the Idle; A Plague of Disorder; The Religious Context; The Plague State
Conclusion: Locke's Labor4 Locke the Landgrave: Inegalitarian Discipline; Locke in Context: Shaftesbury's Pen or Ashcraft's Radical?; Waldron's Locke; The Democratic Intellect; Teleology and Equality; Conclusion: Locke's Inegalitarian Discipline; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary The Empire of Habit critiques the traditional interpretation of Locke's political thought, revealing that the foundation of Lockean liberalism is not natural law but discipline and habit
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 7, 2016)
Subject Locke, John, 1632-1704. Essay concerning human understanding.
Locke, John, 1632-1704. Some thoughts concerning education.
SUBJECT Locke, John, 1632-1704. Some thoughts concerning education
Locke, John, 1632-1704. Essay concerning human understanding
Locke, John (1632-1704). Some thoughts concerning education. ram
Locke, John (1632-1704). Essay concerning human understanding. ram
Essay concerning human understanding (Locke, John) fast (OCoLC)fst01356556
Subject Liberalism -- Philosophy
Knowledge, Theory of -- Early works to 1800
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Liberalism -- Philosophy.
Theorie de la connaissance.
Liberalisme.
Genre/Form Early works.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781782047049
1782047042
1580465617
9781580465618