Slobodan Jovanovic

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ISBN: 9780880332682 | 0880332689
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/1/1993

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This systematic assessment of the political thought of the Yugoslav historian and statesman Jovanovic chronicles his intellectual trajectory.

Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Slobodan Jovanovic: A Life	p. 1
An Approach to Politics	p. 13
Jurisprudence and Political Sociology	p. 13
Political Philosophy: The Primacy of Argument	p. 17
People in Politics	p. 19
Scholarly Detachment and Political Preferences	p. 21
The Dominance of the Essay	p. 24
Political Power and Its Manifestations	p. 27
The State: Problems of Definition	p. 29
Towards a Partial Definition of the State	p. 32
Jurisprudence and the State	p. 33
The Modern State as a Historical Type	p. 36
A Modern View of the Modern State	p. 38
The State: Justification of Its Use of Force	p. 45
The State and Its Use of Military Force	p. 46
The State and Its Monopoly on the Use of Coercion	p. 48
The State's Use of Coercion: A Legal Justification	p. 51
The State's Use of Coercion: A Question of Jurisprudence?	p. 57
The State's Use of Coercion: A Philosophical Justification	p. 61
The State: The Limits of Its Power	p. 63
The State Intervention and Its Limits	p. 63
Against a Liberal View of State Intervention	p. 64
The State's Cultural Mission and the Limits of Its Intervention	p. 69
The State and the Rights of Its Citizens	p. 73
The Negative Ground	p. 76
The Positive Ground	p. 77
The Active Ground	p. 77
Jovanovic and Contemporary Liberal Theories of Rights: A Comparison	p. 80
Politics Under the Rule of Law	p. 85
The Problems of Politics in Jovanovic's Writings	p. 85
The Division of Powers and the Rule of Law	p. 88
The Division of Powers and the Unity of the State	p. 90
The Representative System and the Supremacy of the Legislature	p. 93
The Representative System Without Popular Sovereignty	p. 95
A Representative Legislature	p. 97
The Electorate and the Competence of Legislators	p. 99
Political Parties in Their Quest for Political Power	p. 103
Public Opinion and Political Ideals	p. 106
Politics in the State of the Masses	p. 113
The Departure From the State Based on the Rule of Law	p. 113
Political Ideologies and the State of the Masses	p. 118
The State of the Masses and Its Future	p. 123
Politics in a Revolution	p. 125
The Revolution: Its Definition and Its Socio-Psychological Aspects	p. 127
The Radicalization of Revolutions: An Explanation	p. 133
The Triumph of Revolutionary Fanaticism over Military Force	p. 136
The Institutionalization of Revolutionary Fanaticism: The Work of Danton	p. 140
Fanaticism Triumphant: The Jacobin Terror	p. 143
A Sociological Explanation or a Historical Biography?	p. 147
The State: Moral or Amoral?	p. 151
Legality Without Morality: Jovanovic's Argument	p. 151
A Moral Citizen in a Moral State: The Ideal of Plato	p. 153
The Amorality of the State: Jovanovic on Machiavelli	p. 156
The Superiority of the State to the Individual	p. 158
The Morality of Politics	p. 165
Private Versus Public Morality	p. 165
Public Morality Abandoned	p. 167
Private Morality and Its Influence on Politics	p. 174
Jovanovic's Moral Vision and His Politics	p. 179
Political Thought Without a Political Creed	p. 181
Appendix: Yugoslavia: Its Peoples, Politics, and Constitution	p. 193
The Constitutional Question: An Outline of Its History	p. 194
A Political Solution to the Serb-Croat Conflict: Jovanovic's Proposal	p. 199
The Serbs in a Federal State	p. 204
Notes	p. 209
Select Bibliography	p. 225
Works by Slobodan Jovanovic	p. 225
Works on Jovanovic and His Times	p. 227
Other Works Referred to in the Text	p. 229
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Slobodan Jovanovic

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