Conceptualizing Politics by Cerutti, Furio -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Contents List of figures Preface Acknowledgements Part I What is politics?

1 Politics and power

1 A first definition of politics 2 Power and political power 3 Operating areas, instruments and modus operandi of political power 4 Political power and the others 5 Objections and consequences 6 Politics and power, a fatal connection?

2 The subjective side of politics: legitimacy, identity, obligation

1 Legitimacy and legitimation 2 Political identity 3 Political obligation

Excursus 1: What is political philosophy?

Part II How politics works

3 Order, institutions, models

1 What does order mean in politics? 2 Rules, institutions and the regulation of fear 3 Historic models of political order

4 The state

1 The state and sovereignty 2 The rise of the modern state in Europe 3 State and society 4 State and nation 5 The state and the law 6 State and values

5 Government and democracy

1 Democracy one and two 2 From representation to national democracy 3 Democratic government 4 How is democracy possible? Does it have alternatives? 5 Democracy and capitalism

Part III World politics and the future of politics

6 The states: power, peace and war in anarchical society

1 The anarchical international society 2 War 3 Restraints to war, or peace? 4 The pacification of Europe

7 The globalised world: a challenge to politics

Part I: Globalisation and global governance

1 What is globalisation? 2 Globalisation and politics 3 Global governance?

Part II: Global/lethal challenges: politics after modernity

4 The two present challenges 5 What to do with future generations? 6 Politics after modernity: another definition 7 Global troubles for democracy

Excursus 2: Politics and death

Part IV Ethics and politics

8 Liberty, equality and rights

1 Concepts of liberty 2 Equality and egalitarianism 3 Rights 4 Rights: universal or not?

9 Justice and solidarity

1 Versions of justice 2 Distributive justice 3 Solidarity

10 Ethics, philosophy and politics

1 Ethics and politics 2 Which ethics for politicians? 3 For and against ideal theory 4 Critical Theory

Epilogue: what drives people to politics Index