00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000002567 20240402045406 0010-0520002567 240402################|##########|#eng## 052184214x eng 320.1 320.1 STE i Steinberger, Peter J. Idea of the State / Peter J. Steinberger New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiv, 329 p. ; 24 cm. Indeks : p.325-329 For a half-century or more, political theory has been characterized by a pronounced distrust of metaphysical or ontologistical speculatin. Such a disposition has been sharply at odds with influential currents in post-war philosophy-both analytic and continental-where metaphysical issues have become a central preoccupation. The idea of the state seeks to reaffirm the importance of systematic philosophical inquiry into the foundations of political life, and to show how such an approach can cast a new and highly instructive light on a variety of controversial, seemingly intractable problems of tolerance, civil disobediece, democracy and consent. The author considers the problem of the state in light of recent developments in philosophy and seeks to provide an account of what the state really is. In doing so he pursues a range of fundamental issues pertaining to the office, the authority and the internal organization of political society. State, The 09180/MKRI-P/x-2008