The Politicization of Society / Edition 1

by Kenneth S. Templeton, Jr.

Overview

Fourteen essays explore the central problem of modern society—the decline of free institutions and the growth of the state. Among the essays are “State and Society,” by Felix Morley; “The Monstrosity of Government,” by John Lukacs; and “The Guaranteed Economy and Its Future,” by Jonathan R. T. Hughes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780913966495
Publisher:	Liberty Fund, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/01/1979
Pages:	544
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.50(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
R. M. Hartwell 7 ESSAY ONE
A Theory of the Origin of the State
Robert L. Carneiro 27 ESSAY TWO
State and Society
Felix Morley 53 ESSAY THREE
Freedom, Inequality, Primitivism and the Division of Labor
Murray N. Rothbard 83 ESSAY FOUR
Egalitarianism and Empire
William Marina 127 ESSAY FIVE
The New Despotism
Robert A. Nisbet 167 ESSAY SIX
Politization and Political Solutions
Jacques Ellul 209 ESSAY SEVEN
Liberty and Law
Giovanni Sartori 249 ESSAY EIGHT
The Masses in Representative Democracy
Michael Oakeshott 313 ESSAY NINE
History as Force
Donald M. Dozer 341 ESSAY TEN
Official History
Herbert Butterfield 373 ESSAY ELEVEN
The Monstrosity of Government
John A. Lukacs 391 ESSAY TWELVE
The Guaranteed Economy and Its Future
Jonathan R. T. Hughes 409 ESSAY THIRTEEN
Violence as a Product of Imposed Order
Butler D. Shaffer 447 ESSAY FOURTEEN
Kinds of Order in Society
F. A. Hayek 501 Index 525