商品簡介
Originating as a doctoral dissertation produced in the philosophy department of Bowling Green State U., this volume defends a Neo-Kantian account of the modern state and legal institutions against an alternative view of social organization, exemplified by Chandran Kukatha's ideal of the "liberal archipelago," in which individuals have an unconditional right to live in accordance with their conscience and to absent themselves from any religious, cultural, social, and political associations. In the end analysis, this author suggests, Kukatha's ideal boils down into an individualist anarchist critique of the Weberian state. Employing a Neo-Kantian constructivist argument about individual agency, the author argues that Kukatha's ideal (as with other forms of individualist anarchism) undermines its own prerequisites because it is incompatible with creating the external conditions (such as the rule of law) that are necessary for creating a high degree of individual self-constitution. Annotation c2014 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Christoph Hanisch, University of Vienna, Austria.
