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Author Mathiowetz, Dean, 1972-

Title Appeals to interest : language, contestation, and the shaping of political agency / Dean Mathiowetz.

Publication Info. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 228 pages)
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : the politics of interest -- Property, usury, and the juridical subject of interest -- Appeals to interest in seventeenth-century England -- Contesting sovereignty : interest in Thomas Hobbes -- A historiography of liberal interest and the neoliberal self -- Interest in political studies : action, grouping, and government -- Epilogue : the language of interest as a critical theory of politics.
Summary "Explores the theoretical and political implications of self-interest within the context of neoliberal political, theoretical, and methodological imperatives"--Provided by publisher.
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Subject Political psychology.
Political psychology.
Self-interest -- Political aspects.
Self-interest.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Mathiowetz, Dean, 1972- Appeals to interest. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2011 (DLC) 2010039084
ISBN 9780271072173 (electronic book)
0271072172 (electronic book)
9780271048505 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0271048506 (cloth ; alkaline paper)