Appeals to interest
Subtitle: language, contestation, and the shaping of political agency
By: Dean Mathiowetz
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: University Park, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780271048505
Description: "Explores the theoretical and political implications of self-interest within the context of neoliberal political, theoretical, and methodological imperatives"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The politics of interest; title: Property, usury, and the juridical subject of interest; title: Appeals to interest in seventeenth-century England; title: Contesting sovereignty : interest in Thomas Hobbes; title: A historiography of liberal interest and the neoliberal self; title: Interest in political studies: action, grouping, and government; title: Epilogue : the language of interest as a critical theory of politics.