The mythological state and its empire
By: by David Grant.
Series: Routledge studies in social and political thought -- 59
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415988759
Subjects: State, The; Political science -- Philosophy
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The nature of political mythology; title: Introduction; title: The past as a figure of the present and future; title: Establishment and refinement; title: The Leviathan, the calling and their separation; title: Imagining a general will; title: The reason of Protestant politics; title: Modernisation; title: Reason and the myth of justice; title: The liberalism of the market; title: Freedom is the state; title: Defending the state against scepticism; title: Embodiment; title: The state as civilisation; title: Governmentality, the market and liberalism; title: Notes; title: References; title: Index.