Sovereignty : An Inquiry into the Political Good

Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.

ISBN: 9780865971738 | 0865971730
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 3/1/1998

Buy New

This is a hard-to-find title. We are making every effort to obtain this item, but do not guarantee stock.

$14.35

"Who decides? Who is the Sovereign? What is a good act?" In quest of answers to these vitally important questions, Bertrand de Jouvenel examines successively the nature and history of authority, the political good, the sovereign, and liberty His concern is with "the prospects for individual liberty in democratic societies in which sovereignty purportedly resides in the whole people of the body politic." His objective is a definition and understanding of "the canons of conduct for the public authority of a dynamic society"

Foreword

Preface

xxiii

Translator's Note

xxvii

Introduction

(2)

The Who and the What

(2)

The primordial character of the problem of who decides

(3)

Has the question of what is a good act of government become otiose under democracy?

(2)

Suppose the problem of the What is insoluble

(2)

The dangers of an avowedly normative approach

(5)

PART I. AUTHORITY

The Essence of Politics

(14)

Authority

(17)

The model of the voluntary association

(3)

The model of domination imposed from without

(1)

Definition of authority

(1)

Virtues of authority

(2)

Origin of sovereigns

(2)

The various kinds of associations

(1)

The surety

(2)

Authority and metaphor

(3)

The lightning conductor

(1)

Authority and the social tie

(1)

The Office of Leadership and the Office of Adjustment

(19)

The bridge of Arcola and the oak of Vincennes

(1)

The fixity of the frame

(3)

The crown

(2)

Rex and Augur

(4)

The lesson of Bathsheba

(3)

The stabiliser

(4)

A principle of classification?

(2)

The Group

(17)

The hearth

(2)

The milieu of existence

(3)

The team of action

(3)

The man of the project

(1)

The master builder

(2)

The psychological angle

(1)

Militiae and domi

(3)

Of the Relations Between Authorities

(19)

Natural, institutional, and constraining authority

(2)

Various forms of the imperative

(2)

The link with authority

(2)

The link with authority is not a legal tie

(1)

Are men inconstant as regards authorities?

(1)

The weakness of the sovereign

(1)

``The peers,''

(1)

Those going up and those going down

(3)

The great sergeant-major

(2)

The sovereign and legal persons

100

(3)

PART II. THE POLITICAL GOOD

Of Benevolence in the Sovereign Will

103

(22)

The absolutism of the sovereign will

105

(3)

That the change of incumbent does not affect the problem of benevolence in the governing will

108

(1)

As to the qualities required in the governing will

109

(3)

The sovereign will generaised

112

(3)

The pair of sovereigns

115

(6)

The moral hold

121

(2)

The will for good and the intelligence

123

(1)

The sovereign and his model

124

(1)

The Problem of the Common Good

125

(22)

First question: is the common good self-evident?

126

(2)

Second question: is the common good entirely subjective?

128

(2)

Third question: is the common good comprised in the good of individuals?

130

(4)

Fourth question: does the common good consist in the social tie itself?

134

(3)

Fifth question: is life in society the institutionalisation of trust?

137

(2)

Sixth question: can the political authority promote social friendship?

139

(3)

Uncertainty is the great principle of disassociation

142

(2)

The problem of obligations in a mobile society

144

(3)

Of Social Friendship

147

(20)

Immobility as a principle

147

(4)

The prison of the corollaries

151

(2)

The common good and the collective social interest

153

(2)

Varieties of social friendship

155

(3)

The inevitable diversity of men

158

(2)

The nostalgia for the small community

160

(3)

Closed society and open social network

163

(4)

Justice

167

(34)

Of what or of whom is justice the attribute?

168

(1)

First conception of justice: respect for rights

169

(2)

Prestige of the preservative notion

171

(2)

Second conception of justice: the perfect order

173

(2)

Should justice be identified with other qualities of social arrangements?

175

(2)

Justice as mere conformity to the rule laid down

177

(2)

The feeling for the just

179

(5)

The notion of relevance

184

(1)

The problems of justice

185

(5)

That resources are fruits and what follows from it

190

(2)

The share-out of the fruits within the team

192

(5)

That it is impossible to establish a just social order

197

(1)

In what does the rule of justice consist?

198

(3)

PART III. THE SOVEREIGN

On the Development of the Idea of the Sovereign Will

201

(21)

That absolute sovereignty is a modern idea

202

(1)

The monopolisation of sovereignty

203

(1)

The ladder of commands

204

(2)

The plenitude of power

206

(2)

The role of parliament in the concentration of authority

208

(4)

Monopolisation is achieved

212

(2)

Various types of superiority distinguished by L'Oyseau

214

(2)

Alliance of bourgeois ownership with the royal power

216

(1)

Description of sovereignty

216

(1)

Nationalism and Majestas

217

(2)

Limits of sovereign power

219

(3)

The Sovereign as Legislator

222

(16)

The concrete advance of power

222

(2)

The advance of the royal prerogative

224

(1)

Absolute sovereignty

225

(2)

Sovereignty as attribute

227

(3)

The sovereign and the law

230

(1)

Justice and will

231

(2)

Why did will come to the front?

233

(1)

Sovereignty in itself

234

(4)

The Theory of the Regulated will and ``Fortunate Powerlessness''

238

(23)

The Ancien Regime rejected the despotic ideas in vogue today

239

(1)

When is the command legitimate?

240

(2)

The practical problem

242

(1)

Needed precautions

243

(1)

The fortunate powerlessness of kings

244

(3)

The regulated will

247

(2)

Vicar of God---and a minor

249

(2)

The absolute and the arbitrary

251

(2)

The two doctrines of resistance to royal arbitrariness

253

(3)

The ``feed-back,''

256

(5)

PART IV. LIBERTY

The Political Consequences of Descartes

261

(18)

Man in general

263

(1)

That every ``idea of man'' is necessarily ambiguous

264

(5)

The Cartesian dichotomy

269

(4)

``The political consequences of Descartes''

273

(1)

Conceiving and understanding

274

(1)

Self-evidence in political theories

275

(1)

The problem of the orchard

276

(1)

Democracy of the understanding

277

(2)

The Political Consequences of Hobbes

279

(20)

The state of society

280

(1)

The nature of man

281

(3)

The institution of the commonwealth

284

(1)

Fear and wisdom

285

(2)

The Diktat

287

(1)

Civil religion

288

(1)

The liberalism of Hobbes

289

(1)

Hobbes, father of political economy

290

(1)

Politics and hedonism

291

(2)

Necessity of political stability in the Hobbesian system

293

(2)

Hobbesian man and the citizen

295

(1)

The lesson of Hobbes

296

(3)

Liberty

299

(35)

``The chains,''

299

(2)

Liberty as power: the classical definition

301

(2)

Liberty as a truncated circle

303

(3)

Liberty as means

306

(3)

Means as social grants

309

(2)

How liberty loses any common meaning

311

(3)

Liberty as dignity: ``No Man Is an Iland,''

314

(2)

On obligations

316

(2)

The free man as volunteer

318

(1)

Libertarian harmony

319

(2)

Of arbitrariness in laws

321

(2)

The internal tension within the individual

323

(2)

Liberty as participation and as isolation

325

(3)

Babylon and Icaria

328

(6)

Liberty of Opinion and Natural Light

334

(23)

What is called liberty of opinion is a free clash of opinions

335

(1)

The historical origins

336

(3)

Opinions and behaviours

339

(1)

The postulate of convergence

340

(4)

The postulate of divergence

344

(4)

The principle of dispersion

348

(1)

That moral relativism cannot lead to toleration

349

(2)

Panorama

351

(4)

Generating lines of various social philosophies

355

(2)

CONCLUSION

357

(12)

Political authorities not the sole subject of Political Science

358

(2)

The Rule of Law: what it means

360

(1)

The initiative: where it lies

361

(1)

The opportunity to generate a group

362

(1)

Rex: the stabiliser

363

(1)

State action: a companion to individual initiative

364

(1)

The unfreedom of government

365

(2)

The character of Political Science

367

(2)

Index

369

Please wait while the item is added to your bag...

FREE SHIPPING

Rent More, Save More! Use code: BBRENTAL

5% off 1 book, 7% off 2 books, 10% off 3+ books

Sovereignty : An Inquiry into the Political Good

Summary

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials

FREE SHIPPING

Rent More, Save More! Use code: BBRENTAL

5% off 1 book, 7% off 2 books, 10% off 3+ books

Sovereignty : An Inquiry into the Political Good

Summary

Table of Contents

Supplemental Materials

Digital License