Appeals to Interest : : Language, Contestation, and the Shaping of Political Agency / / Dean Mathiowetz.
It has become a commonplace assumption in modern political debate that white and rural working- and middle-class citizens in the United States who have been rallied by Republicans in the “culture wars” to vote Republican have been voting “against their interests.” But what, exactly, are these “inter...
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| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: The Politics of Interest
- 2 Property, Usury, and the Juridical Subject of Interest
- 3 Appeals to Interest in Seventeenth-Century England
- 4 Contesting Sovereignty: Interest in Thomas Hobbes
- 5 A Historiography of Liberal Interest and the Neoliberal Self
- 6 Interest in Political Studies: Action, Grouping, and Government
- Epilogue: The Language of Interest as a Critical Theory of Politics
- Selected Bibliography
- Index