Technology and the End of Authority (eBook)

What Is Government For?

Jason Kuznicki (Autor)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
X, 285 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-48692-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This book provides a critical survey of Western political philosophy from a classical liberal perspective, paying particular attention to knowledge problems and the problem of political authority. Its central argument is that the state is a tool for solving a historically changing set of problems, and that, as a tool, the state is frequently deficient on both moral and practical grounds. Government action can be considered as a response to a set of problems, all of which may conceivably be solved in some other manner as well. The book examines in particular the relationship between the state and technology over time. Technological developments may make the state more or less necessary over time, which is a consideration that is relatively new in the history of political philosophy, but increasingly important. The book is organized chronologically and concludes with an essay on trends in the history of political philosophy, as well as its surprisingly bright prospects for future development.

Jason Kuznicki is Research Fellow at the Cato Institute, USA, and editor of Cato Unbound. He obtained his PhD in intellectual history from Johns Hopkins University, USA.

Inhalt

ContentsEpigraphsIntroduction: The March of God in the WorldPart I. A Too-Brief History of Political Theory1. The Ancient State and the Myth of Marathon2. The Ancient Dissenters3. Christianity and the City of Man: From Retreat to Reform4. The March of the State in the Early Modern World5. The Social Contractarians: Can an Agreement Specify What Government is For?6. The Modern Omnipotent StatePart II: Toward a New Theory of the State7. The Structures of Political Theory8. The State Is a Bundle9. Some Objections to the Theory10. The Falsification of State Action11. Advancing Technology Demands Intellectual Modesty12. On Trade as a Central Feature of SocietyBibliographyIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.1.2017
• Zusatzinfo: X, 285 p.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: agnarchism • Anarchism • deontological libertarianism • Government • Intellectual history • libertarian • Political Philosophy • unrequited transfer
• ISBN-10: 3-319-48692-6 / 3319486926
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-48692-5 / 9783319486925