The State and Justice
An Essay in Political Theory
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 29 September 1989
- ISBN 9780521374736
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages404 pages
- Size 229x152x27 mm
- Weight 760 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book offers a political theory combining elements from the Marxist and liberal traditions.
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This book offers a political theory combining elements from the Marxist and liberal traditions. It presents the reader with a disturbing view of the contemporary state as at war with itself. This internal conflict is no accident but stems from the state's having the double task of spurring on the economy and protecting the welfare and rights of all its citizens. Such conflict does not end at national boundaries but extends through the system of any imperial state. This perspective illuminates the fractures and instability within the imperial system. This book will be of particular interest to political scientists, political philosophers, and those engaged in policy studies.
"This is an important, ambitious book. Rather than continuing the debate about what Marx thought about justice or the state, Fisk has set out to construct a materialist theory of each, and their interrelation...He draws on concrete historical and contemporary experience to a degree rare among philosophers...Fisk is bold, unconventional, provocative. Few readers will agree with everything here; fewer still will come away without new ideas buzzing in the brain." David Schweickart, Radical Philosophy Review of Books
Table of Contents:
Preface; Introduction: can the state rule without justice?; Part I. An Outline of a Materialist Political Theory: 1. A challenge to materialism; 2. A framework for the state; 3. The revolt against theory; 4. State autonomy; Part II. An Assessment of the Place of Justice in the State: 5. Ideal justice; 6. Property and justice; 7. Repression and radical justice; 8. Justice and materialism; 9. Equality and liberty; 10. Class and the limits of control; Part III. A Functional View of Political Institutions: 11. On functional explanation; 12. Power and function; 13. Democracy, its bright and dark sides; 14. Welfare capitalism; 15. The new mercantilism; 16. Organized labor and the state; Part IV. An Account of the Community of States: 17. Global justice; 18. The imperial state; 19. Peace through strength; 20. The Soviet Union as other; Part V. A Reflection on the Transition to a New Kind of State: 21. Liberal egalitarianism; 22. Revolutionary anarchism; 23. Democracy and the transition to socialism; 24. The socialist state; Conclusion: state class, and democracy; Notes; Index.
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