“Uncertainty makes us free”. Liberalism, risk and individual security

Security associated with 'the state′ easily is imagined only in terms of a 'Hobbesian′ problematic of the transfer of rights to a sovereign. Yet internal to liberal government is a 'Benthamite′ concern with security as the provision of a calculable environment in which rational actors...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pat O'Malley
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Universität Freiburg 2009-12-01
Series:Behemoth : a Journal on Civilisation
Online Access:http://www.oldenbourg-link.com/AV/doi/pdf/10.1524/behe.2009.0018