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Imagining Interest in Political Thought: Origins of Economic Rationality

Imagining Interest in Political Thought: Origins of Economic Rationality

Engelmann, Stephen G.

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General Political Science

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ISBN10: 0822331225
ISBN13: 9780822331223
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Sep 5 2003
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Imagining Interest in Political Thought argues that monistic interest--or the shaping and coordination of different pursuits through imagined economies of self and public interest--constitutes the end and means of contemporary liberal government. The paradigmatic theorist of monistic interest is the English political philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), whose concept of utilitarianism calls for maximization of pleasure by both individuals and the state. Stephen G. Engelmann contends that commentators have too quickly dismissed Bentham's philosophy as a crude materialism with antiliberal tendencies. He places Benthamite utilitarianism at the center of his account and, in so doing, reclaims Bentham for liberal political theory.

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