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The State: On the Nature and Norms of the Modern Polity - Couverture rigide

Pettit, Philip

 
9780691182209: The State: On the Nature and Norms of the Modern Polity
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ISBN 10 : 0691182205 ISBN 13 : 9780691182209
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2023

Synopsis

A major new account of the state and its importance by a leading political philosopher

The future of our species depends on the state. Can states resist corporate capture, religious zealotry, and nationalist mania? Can they find a way to work together so that the earth heals and its peoples prosper? Or is the state just not up to the task? In this book, the prominent political philosopher Philip Pettit examines the nature of the state and its capacity to serve goals like peace and justice within and beyond its borders. In doing so, he breaks new ground by making the state the focus of political theory--with implications for economic, legal, and social theory--and presents a persuasive, historically informed image of an institution that lies at the center of our lives.

Offering an account that is more realist than utopian, Pettit starts from the function the polity is meant to serve, looks at how it can best discharge that function, and explores its ability to engage beneficially in the life of its citizens. This enables him to identify an ideal of statehood that is a precondition of justice. Only if states approximate this functional ideal will they be able to deal with the perennial problems of extreme poverty and bitter discord as well as the challenges that loom over the coming centuries, including climate change, population growth, and nuclear arms.

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À propos de l'auteur

Philip Pettit is L. S. Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values at Princeton University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University, Canberra. He is the author of Republicanism, On the People's Terms, Just Freedom, and other books.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691182205
ISBN 13 
9780691182209
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
376
Coordonnées du fabricant
Princeton University Press
https://press.princeton.edu/books

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