Sabl Hume's Politics

Coordination and Crisis in the History of England
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-4552-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Hume's Politics provides a comprehensive examination of David Hume's political theory, and is the first book to focus on Hume's monumental History of England as the key to his distinctly political ideas. Andrew Sabl argues that conventions of authority are the main building blocks of Humean politics, and explores how the History addresses political change and disequilibrium through a dynamic treatment of coordination problems. Dynamic coordination, as employed in Hume's work, explains how conventions of political authority arise, change, adapt to new social and economic conditions, improve or decay, and die. Sabl shows how Humean constitutional conservatism need not hinder--and may in fact facilitate--change and improvement in economic, social, and cultural life. He also identifies how Humean liberalism can offer a systematic alternative to neo-Kantian approaches to politics and liberal theory.

At once scholarly and accessibly written, Hume's Politics builds bridges between political theory and political science. It treats issues of concern to both fields, including the prehistory of political coordination, the obstacles that must be overcome in order for citizens to see themselves as sharing common political interests, the close and counterintuitive relationship between governmental authority and civic allegiance, the strategic ethics of political crisis and constitutional change, and the ways in which the biases and injustices endemic to executive power can be corrected by legislative contestation and debate.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sabl, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Coordination and Convention 21

Chapter 2 Coordinating Interests: The Liberalism of Enlargement 43

Chapter 3 Convention and Allegiance 90

Chapter 4 Crown and Charter: Fundamental Conventions

as Principles of Authority 121

Chapter 5 Leadership and Constitutional Crises 157

Chapter 6 Vertical Inequality and the Extortion of Liberty 188

Chapter 7 What Touches All: Equality, Parliamentarism, and Contested Authority 207

Conclusion 227

Notes 249

References 313

Index 327

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Sabl is professor of public policy and political science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Ruling Passions: Political Offices and Democratic Ethics (Princeton).