The Nature and Limits of State Power
E-Book, Englisch, 216 Seiten, E-Book
ISBN: 978-1-5095-2615-4
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Bobbio's wide-ranging argument is focused on four themes: thedistinction between the public and the private; the concept ofcivil society; differing conceptions of the state and differingways of understanding the legitimacy of state power; and therelation between democracy and dictatorship. Bobbio's discussiondraws on a wealth of theoretical and historical material, fromPlato, Aristotle, Hobbes and Locke to Marx, Weber, Habermas andFoucault. By analysing the development of different languages ofpolitics in relation to changing social and historical contexts,Bobbio deepens our understanding of the concepts we use to describeand evaluate modern political systems.
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Introduction: Democracy and the Decline of the Left by John Keane.
Preface.
Part I: The great dichotomy: public/private:.
Corresponding dichotomies.
The evaluative use of the great dichotomy.
The second meeting of the dichotomy.
Part II: Civil Society:.
The various meanings.
The Marxian interpretation.
The Hegelian system.
The natural law tradition.
Civil society as civilised society.
The current debate.
Part III: State, Power and Government:.
Towards the study of the state.
The name and the thing.
The state and power.
The foundation of power.
State and law.
The forms of government.
Forms of state.
The end of the state.
Part IV: Democracy and Dictatorship:.
Democracy in the theory of governmental forms.
The descriptive use.
The evaluative use.
The historical use.
Modern democracy.
Representative democracy and direct democracy.
Political democracy and social democracy.
Formal democracy and substantive democracy.
Ancient dictatorship.
Modern dictatorship.
Revolutionary dictatorship.
Bibliography.
Index.
