Karl Widerquist, Grant S. McCall

Prehistoric Myths in Modern Political Philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

The state of nature, the origin of property, the origin of government, the primordial nature of inequality and war why do political philosophers talk so much about the Stone Age? Widerquist and McCall draw on archaeology and anthropology to show that much of what we think we know about human origins comes from philosophers' imaginations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 157mm x 234mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9781474437790
• ISBN-10: 1474437796
• Artikelnr.: 51148503

Autorenporträt

Karl Widerquist is Associate Professor in Political Theory at Georgetown University. Grant S. McCall is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at Tulane University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Modern political philosophy and prehistoric anthropology: Some
preliminary issues
3. The Hobbesian hypothesis: How a colonial prejudice became an
essential premise in most popular justification of government
sovereignty
4. Locke employs the Hobbesian hypothesis: How very much the same
colonial prejudice became an essential premise in the most popular
justification of private property rights
5. The Hobbesian hypothesis in seventeenth century political theory
6. The Hobbesian hypothesis in nineteenth century political theory
7. The Hobbesian Hypothesis in Contemporary Political Theory
8. The Violence Hypothesis in Anthropology
9. Nasty & Brutish? Evidence for and against the violence hypothesis
10. Are you better off now that you were 12,000 years ago? An empirical
assessment of the Hobbesian Hypothesis
11. Implications: What's left of contractarianism and propertarianism
without the Hobbesian hypothesis?
Index
Online Appendix:
* Appendix to Chapter 2
* Appendix to Chapter 5
* Appendix to Chapter 6
* Appendix to Chapter 7
* Appendix to Chapter 8