This great beast
Subtitle: progress and the modern state
By: Bob Catley, Wayne Cristaudo
Contributors: Cristaudo, Wayne, 1954-
Series: Routledge revivals; Routledge revivals
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9780429430893
Copyright date: 1997
Subjects: The State; Democracy; Liberalism; Progress; État; Libéralisme; Progrès; POLITICAL SCIENCE; Essays; Government; General; National; Reference
Description: First published in 1997, this volume follows Catley and Cristaudo as they defend Western Civilization against all comers: against the rest of the world, especially the Third World, and against its own internal irritants: 'the scribblings of the intelligentsia' by idealist philosophers, feminists, greens, post-moderns, multiculturalists, Orientalists, anti-nationalists, socialists and Keynesians, most of them tenured academics in the arts and social sciences. As academic political scientists themselves they have done time in a number of the ideological prisons they attack, and they write about those states of mind with experienced cynicism . As in Paradise Lost, the devil gets all the best tunes. The identification of civilization's enemies is wildly, sometimes hilariously, politically incorrect.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Characteristics and Typology of the Modern State; 2 Social Evolution and the Modern State; 3 The Purpose of the State; 4 Philosophy Dreaming: Idealist Approaches to the State; 5 The Seizure of State Power: Realist and Idealist Approaches; 6 The Preservation of Order: Leviathan and Behemoth; 7 The Legitimate Representation of Interests: The People; 8 Separating Powers or Willing Unity?: Montesquieu vs. Rousseau and Paine; 9 The Extension of Representation; title: 10 The Development of Social Rights and Social Democracy11 The Mature Civilised State; 12 The Behaviour of States in the International Arena; 13 Globalisation and the State; 14 The Future of the State; Index