Technology and the End of Authority: What Is Government For?
Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The March of God in the World -- Note -- Part I: A Too-Brief History of Political Theory -- Chapter 2: The Ancient State and the Myth of Marathon -- Notes -- Chapter 3: The Ancient Dissenters -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Christianity and the City of Man: From Retreat to Reform -- Notes -- Chapter 5: The March of the State in the Early Modern World -- Machiavelli: The Return of Ancient Virtue -- Campanella: The Astrologically Perfect State -- Bossuet: The Great Champion of Absolutism -- Notes -- Chapter 6: The Social Contractarians: Can an Agreement Specify What Government Is For? -- Hobbes: Absolute Power and Its Limits -- Locke: Government Is a Mediator -- Rousseau: The Search for Lost Virtue -- Kant: Government Is an Unfinished Project -- Utilitarianism: A Modern Shortcut -- Notes -- Chapter 7: The Modern Omnipotent State -- Hegel and the World Spirit -- Marx: The State Is Historically Contingent -- Oppenheimer: Citizenship Without the State -- Notes -- Part II: Toward a New Theory of the State -- Chapter 8: The Structures of Political Theory -- Notes -- Chapter 9: The State Is a Bundle -- Notes -- Chapter 10: Some Objections to the Theory -- Notes -- Chapter 11: The Falsification of State Action -- Notes -- Chapter 12: Advancing Technology Demands Intellectual Modesty -- Notes -- Chapter 13: On Trade as a Central Feature of Society -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index