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