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Politics without Reason

The Perfect World and the Liberal Ideal

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Part I

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

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      Pages 3-12

    3. Reason, Desire, and the Self

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      Pages 13-36

  3. Part II

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37
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    2. The Flight from Reason

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      Pages 39-56

    3. Family Values

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      Pages 57-78

    4. Moral Renewal

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      Pages 79-96

    5. Deception

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      Pages 97-111

  4. Part III

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. Desire without Limit

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      Pages 115-132

    3. The Ultimate Fulfillment

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      Pages 133-149

    4. Greed, Morality, and Corruption

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      Pages 151-168

    5. Corporate Corruption

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      Pages 169-186

  5. Part IV

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
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    2. An Imperfect World

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      Pages 189-192

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 193-207
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About this book

Politics without Reason explores the roots of contemporary hostility toward liberalism. The thesis of the book is that ambivalence about the self and about desire as an expression of the self fosters the intense animosity we observe directed toward the liberal ideal.

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"This current experience of uncertainty has led to splitting and polarization at the national political level.Thisresults in both the Republican and Democratic parties being used as the 'other'. Each party becomesthe sole bad object for the other.In exploring and seeking to understand something of the irrationality behind such splitting this timely, reflective volume provides us with a valuable explanation of current political dynamics in America." - Lionel F Stapley, author of Globalisation and Terrorism: Death of a Way of Life

About the author

DAVID P. LEVINE is Professor of Economics in the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver, USA. He has published several dozen articles and thirteen books in economics, political economy, and political psychology most recently, Poverty, Work and Freedom: Political Economy and the Moral Order (with S. Rizvi)  and Attack on Government: Fear, Distrust and Hatred in Public life and Welfare, Right and the State. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Politics without Reason

  • Book Subtitle: The Perfect World and the Liberal Ideal

  • Authors: David P. Levine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230615519

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60377-6Published: 17 November 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-37179-2Published: 21 October 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-61551-9Published: 29 September 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 207

  • Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy

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