E. Lamberts The struggle with Leviathan

social responses to the omnipotence of the state, 1815-1965

A panoramic picture of international politics and the formation of the modern State. The opposition to the omnipotence of the State - as symbolised by Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan (1651) - had a significant impact on the political organisation of European society. A liberal strategy intended to provide a protective legal status for individual citizens, whereas a social strategy aimed to strengthen the social fabric to counterbalance the power of the State. Gradually both strategies became interwoven....

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Engels | 344 pagina's (PDF, 21 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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