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Political Corruption - The Underside of Civic Morality (Hardcover)
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Political Corruption - The Underside of Civic Morality (Hardcover)
Series: Haney Foundation Series
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The notion of corruption as a problem for politics spans many
centuries and political, social, and cultural contexts. But it is
incredibly difficult to define what we mean when we describe a
regime or actor as corrupt: while corruption suggests a falling
away from purity, health, or integrity, it flourishes today in an
environment that is often inarticulate about its moral ideals and
wary of perfectionist discourse. Providing a historical perspective
on the idea, Robert Alan Sparling explores diverse visions of
corruption that have been elucidated by thinkers across the modern
philosophical tradition. In a series of chronologically ordered
philosophical portraits, Political Corruption considers the
different ways in which a metaphor of impurity, disease, and
dissolution was deployed by political philosophers from the
Renaissance to the early twentieth century. Focusing specifically
on the thought of Erasmus, Etienne de La Boetie, Machiavelli,
Montesquieu, Bolingbroke, Robespierre, Kant, and Weber, Sparling
situates these thinkers in their historical contexts and argues
that each of them offers a distinctive vision of corruption that
has continuing relevance in contemporary political debates. He
contrasts immoderate purists with impure moderates and reveals
corruption to be a language of reaction and revolution. The book
explores themes such as the nature of civic trust and distrust; the
relationship of transparency to accountability; the integrity of
leaders and the character of uncorrupted citizens; the division
between public and private; the nature of dependency; and the
relationship between regime and civic disposition. Political
Corruption examines how philosophers have conceived of public
office and its abuse and how they have sought to insulate the
public sphere from anticivic inclinations and interests. Sparling
argues that speaking coherently about political corruption in our
present moment requires a robust account of the good regime and of
the character of its citizens and officeholders.
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