Pluralism and the personality of the state
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Pluralism and the personality of the state
(Ideas in context / edited by Quentin Skinner (general editor) ... [et al.], 47)
Cambridge University Press, 1997
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 266-274
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Set against the broad context of philosophical arguments about group and state personality, Pluralism and the Personality of the State tells, for the first time, the history of political pluralism. The pluralists believed that the state was simply one group among many, and could not therefore be sovereign. They also believed that groups, like individuals, might have personalities of their own. The book examines the philosophical background to political pluralist ideas with particular reference to the work of Thomas Hobbes and the German Otto von Gierke. It also traces the development of pluralist thought before, during and after the First World War. Part Three returns to Hobbes in order to see what conclusions can be drawn about the nature of his Leviathan and the nature of the state as it exists today.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part I. The Personality of Associations: 1. Introduction
- 2. Hobbes and the person of the commonwealth
- 3. Gierke and the Genossenschaft
- 4. Trusts and sovereigns
- Part II. Political Pluralism: 5. Maitland and the real personality of associations
- 6. Figgis and the communitas communitatum
- 7. Barker and the discredited state
- 8. Cole and guild socialism
- 9. Laski and political pluralism
- 10. The return of the state
- Part III. The Personality of the State: 11. The mask of personality
- 12. The mask of the group
- 13. The mask of the state
- 14. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.
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