Conceptualizing Politics: An Introduction to Political Philosophy

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I What is politics?
	1 Politics and power
		1 A first definition of politics
		2 Power and political power
		3 Operating areas, instruments and modus operandi of political power
		4 Political power and the others
		5 Objections and consequences
		6 Politics and power, a fatal connection?
	2 The subjective side of politics: legitimacy, identity, obligation
		1 Legitimacy and legitimation
		2 Political identity
		3 Political obligation
	Excursus 1: What is political philosophy?
Part II How politics works
	3 Order, institutions, models
		1 What does order mean in politics?
		2 Rules, institutions and the regulation of fear
		3 Historic models of political order
	4 The state
		1 The state and sovereignty
		2 The rise of the modern state in Europe
		3 State and society
		4 State and nation
		5 The state and the law
		6 State and values
	5 Government and democracy
		1 Democracy one and two
		2 From representation to national democracy
		3 Democratic government
		4 How is democracy possible? Does it have alternatives?
		5 Democracy and capitalism
Part III World politics and the future of politics
	6 The states: power, peace and war in anarchical society
		1 The anarchical international society
		2 War
		3 Restraints to war, or peace?
		4 The pacification of Europe
	7 The globalised world: a challenge to politics
		Part I: Globalisation and global governance
			1 What is globalisation?
			2 Globalisation and politics
			3 Global governance?
		Part II: Global/lethal challenges: politics after modernity
			4 The two present challenges
			5 What to do with future generations?
			6 Politics after modernity: another definition
			7 Global troubles for democracy
	Excursus 2: Politics and death
Part IV Ethics and politics
	8 Liberty, equality and rights
		1 Concepts of liberty
		2 Equality and egalitarianism
		3 Rights
		4 Rights: universal or not?
	9 Justice and solidarity
		1 Versions of justice
		2 Distributive justice
		3 Solidarity
	10 Ethics, philosophy and politics
		1 Ethics and politics
		2 Which ethics for politicians?
		3 For and against ideal theory
		4 Critical Theory
Epilogue: what drives people to politics
Index