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Political Theory and Modernity

ISBN: 978-0-631-17034-1
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212 pages
January 1991, Wiley-Blackwell
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Preface vii

1 The Order of Modernity 1

The modern frame 1

A madman speaks 7

Modernity and nihilism 12

2 Hobbes: The Politics of Divine Containment 16

The ontological context 16

The light of reason 21

Nature, madness and artifice 26

Rhetorics of nature and sovereignty 30

Strategies of sovereignty 33

Reason, faith and power 35

3 Rousseau: Docility Through Citizenship 41

The eloquence of nature 41

The simplicity of nature 47

The paradox of politics 53

The politics of virtue 57

Faith, generality and will 61

Interlude 1 Hobbes, Rousseau and the Marquis de Sade 68

The holy alliance 68

The blindness of nature 72

The politics of pornography 79

4 Hegel: The politics of Inclusivity 86

Madness and knowledge 86

Community and subjectivity 93

Faith and Enlightenment 100

The perfection of Enlightenment 111

Interlude 2 Hegel, Marx and the State 116

The unity of the state 116

The state without Spirit 121

Pauperism and politics 125

The state of modernity 128

5 Nietzsche: Politics and Homesickness 137

Truth and homesickness 137

A genealogy of the subject 147

A Nietzschean ethic 160

The fate of modernity 168

Notes 176

Bibliography 183

Index 190

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