Against the State

Against the StateIrreverent and incisive critique of liberal theories of the state. In Against the State, Crispin Sartwell unleashes a quick and brutal rejection of the traditional arguments for state legitimacy. Sartwell considers the classics of Western political philosophy Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Hume, Bentham, Rawls, and Habermas, among others and argues that their positions are not only wrong but also embarrassingly bad. He separates the traditional pro

This study suggests that local political factors were even more important than national factors in contributing to the city's fiscal stress

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Vance's pioneering work on mentorship has provided us with the language

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A fascinating look at Chinese perceptions of the United States and the cultural and political background that informs them

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the limiting factors for Genome-wide Association Studies (GWAS) in barley have shifted from the number of markers to the number of individuals

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the first major biography of Bryant in almost forty years

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