The State (eBook)

Philip Pettit (Autor)

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2023
376 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-24439-6 (ISBN)

Infos

A major new account of the state and its importance by a leading political philosopherThe future of our species depends on the state. Can states resist corporate capture, religious zealotry, and nationalist mania? Can they find a way to work together so that the earth heals and its peoples prosper? Or is the state just not up to the task? In this book, the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit examines the nature of the state and its capacity to serve goals like peace and justice within and beyond its borders. In doing so, he breaks new ground by making the state the focus of political theorywith implications for economic, legal, and social theoryand presents a persuasive, historically informed image of an institution that lies at the center of our lives.Offering an account that is more realist than utopian, Pettit starts from the function the polity is meant to serve, looks at how it can best discharge that function, and explores its ability to engage beneficially in the life of its citizens. This enables him to identify an ideal of statehood that is a precondition of justice. Only if states approximate this functional ideal will they be able to deal with the perennial problems of extreme poverty and bitter discord as well as the challenges that loom over the coming centuries, including climate change, population growth, and nuclear arms.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.3.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 1 table.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Amendment • attempt • author • awareness • Charles I of England • Citizenship • Civil disobedience • Colonialism • Commercial Bank • Commodity • Consideration • Consumer Protection • Contract • contract theory • Contractual term • corporate agent • Currency • decentralization • Decision-Making • defendant • Democracy • Directive (European Union) • Discretion • Dissident • Doctrine • Employment • Equality before the law • Explanation • Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution • Gilbert Ryle • impunity • income • Inflation • Inquiry • Institution • Institutional Theory • Internalization • intimidation • IOU • John Locke • joint-stock company • just-so story • Laissez-faire • Law • Legal Personality • Legislation • Legislator • Legislature • Libertarian Party (United States) • Local community • Loyal opposition • majority • Market Economy • Mental property • Metaphor • Methodology • Minarchism • Money Supply • Multitude • Natural and legal rights • Non-commercial • Organizational Structure • Ownership • Ownership (psychology) • Oxford University Press • parliamentary system • Person • Police corruption • Political Philosophy • Prerogative • private Bank • public administration • Quantitative Easing • Quentin Skinner • Regime • Requirement • result • Right-libertarianism • right to property • Robert Nozick • Roman law • Rule of Law • Ruler • self-esteem • Shareholder • Sovereignty • State of nature • State (polity) • Terminology • theory • Thomas Hobbes • Thought experiment • Tort • Trading Company • Treaty • Tribunal • Unintended Consequences • unmoved mover • Voting • World Economy
• ISBN-10: 0-691-24439-1 / 0691244391
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24439-6 / 9780691244396