Against Politics: On Government, Anarchy and Order (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

De Jasay, Anthony

ISBN 10: 0415170672 / ISBN 13: 9780415170673

Published by Routledge, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Against Politics: On Government, Anarchy and Order (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415170672
• ISBN 13: 9780415170673
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Weight: 20 ounces

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Synopsis

Is the state a necessity, a convenience, or neither? It enforces collective choices in which some override the preferences and dispose of the resources of others. Moreover, collective choice serves as its own source of authority and preempts the space it wishes to occupy. The morality and efficacy of the result are perennial questions central to political philosophy.
In Against Politics Jasay takes a closely reasoned stand, based on modern rational choice arguments, for rejecting much of mainstream thought about these matters. In the first part of the book, Excuses, he assesses the standard justification of government based consent, the power of constitutions to achieve limited government, and ideas for reforming politics. In the second part, Emergent Solutions , he explores the force of first principles to secure liberties and rights and some of the potential of spontaneous conventions for generating ordered anarchy.
Written with clarity and simplicity, this powerful volume represents the central part of Jasay's recent work. Fully accessible to the general reader, it should stimulate the specialist reader to fresh thought.

About the Author

Anthony de Jasay is also the author of Choice, Contract, Consent (1991), Social Contract, Free Ride (1989), and The State (1985).