We see the modern State as the most rational form of governing
yet devised, and one which properly recognises our inherent
individual rights. However, as the histories of colonialism and
imprisonment reveal, it is also an intruder into the lives of
generally unwilling individuals, constraining rights.
This book looks beneath the contradiction to see an entity
willingly sustained by all individuals and for which we forgo our
responsibility to and for ourselves. We place ourselves in the
hands of those interests that promise to deal with our fears and
desires the best.
Probing the work of political thinkers from Hobbes to Rawls, the
book discovers a State that is a real, mythological entity,
spreading across social and geographic space and concerned first
with satisfying our two passions. Understanding this mythology may
allow reason to emerge from its service to fear and desire, so that
the modern State could become truly modern.
This book will be of interest to scholars in Sociology,
Politics, Philosophy, and Law.
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