| Description |
806 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"This volume is a revision, with numerous additions, of the earlier Man and the state: modern political ideas." |
| Contents |
Philosophy and politics -- Absolutism and relativism in philosophy and politics -- Antirelativism: A metaphysical-religious view -- Antirelativism: A rational-secular view -- Psychoanalysis and politics -- Society as the patient -- Defeatism concerning democracy -- Group living: Autocratic, democratic, and Laissez-Faire -- Escape from freedom --The authoritarian personality -- Democracy, revolution, and the threat of anarchy -- Declaration of independenece -- Rebellion and liberty -- Challenge to authority -- Freedom and the general will -- Freedom of opinion - limited or unlimited? -- The logic of persecution -- Subversive of what? -- An affirmative loyalty program -- The case of the eleven communist leaders -- Does the Smith Act threaten our liberties? -- The meaning of equality -- inequality and personal freedom -- Democracy and the expert -- The lion and the fox -- The sovereign state -- Politics, history, religion -- Freedom in nature and society -- The state divine -- Sovereignty: Monarchical or popular? -- Individualism, democracy, and the state -- German and western conceptions of freedom -- Democracy is forever impossible -- "Give me a leader" -- Prophet of fascism -- Politics: The struggle with the enemy -- The bigger the lie, the better -- Fascism, war, dictatorship -- Social disintegration and fascism -- Total domination and mass murder --On philosophy -- Economic interpretation of history -- The communist manifesto -- Economic and noneconomic forces in history -- The withering away of the state -- Call to revolution -- Communist strategy and tactics -- Why I am not a communist -- The end of government -- Representation of property -- Property-The first principle of government -- The rule of law and regulation of property -- The free market economy -- The case for big business -- The theory of countervailing power -- Competition and public policy -- The tyranny of functionless property -- Democratic socialism versus totalitarian communism and fascism -- Britain: World leader of democratic socialism -- Socialism and the common law -- The moral case for socialism -- Socialism in America -- Science and society -- Planning versus democracy -- Road to serfdom -- Planning: America's experience -- Planning: By inducement or direction? -- Industrial absolutism versus political liberty -- Full employment in a free society -- From the welfare state through inflation to collectivism -- Welfare capitalism, not welfare state -- The welfare state: A negative view -- The welfare state: An affirmative view -- The welfare state, communism and world peace -- Nationality and liberty -- Humanitarian nationalism -- What is a nation? -- Democratic nationalism -- Imperialism- incompatible with free government -- The philosophy of international anarchy -- Perpetual peace -- The sovereign assassin -- The atom and humanity -- The free state versus the military state -- Why men wage war -- Utopia and reality: A conservative view -- Utopia and reality: A liberal appraisal -- The myth of world government -- The reality of world government -- Peace through law |
| Subject |
Political science.
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Political science. |
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