政治思想における利益の想像：経済的合理性の起源<br>Imagining Interest in Political Thought : Origins of Economic Rationality

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政治思想における利益の想像：経済的合理性の起源
Imagining Interest in Political Thought : Origins of Economic Rationality

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  • 言語 ENG
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基本説明

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.

Full Description

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.Tracing the development of monistic interest from its origins in Reformation political theory and theology through late-twentieth-century neoliberalism, Engelmann reconceptualizes the history of liberalism as consisting of phases in the history of monistic interest or economic government. He describes how monistic interest, as formulated by Bentham, is made up of the individual's imagined expectations, which are constructed by the very regime that maximizes them. He asserts that this construction of interests is not the work of a self-serving manipulative state. Rather, the state, which is itself subject to strict economic regulation, is only one cluster of myriad "public" and "private" agencies that produce and coordinate expectations. In place of a liberal vision in which government appears only as a protector of the free pursuit of interest, Engelmann posits that the free pursuit of interest is itself a mode of government, one that deploys individual imagination and choice as its agents.

Contents

Acknowledgments ix

1. Introduction 1

2. Against the Usual Story 17

3. Virtuous Economies 35

4. Imagining Interest 48

5. State Rationality 77

6. The Public Interest 104

7. The Economic Polity 141

Notes 151

Index 185