Slobodan Jovanović : an unsentimental approach to politics /
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| Author / Creator: | Pavković, Aleksandar. |
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| Imprint: | Boulder : East European Monographs ; New York : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1993. |
| Description: | xiv, 231 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | East European monographs no. 371 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2493637 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Slobodan Jovanovic: A Life
- 2. An Approach to Politics. Jurisprudence and Political Sociology. Political Philosophy: The Primacy of Argument. People in Politics. Scholarly Detachment and Political Preferences. The Dominance of the Essay. Political Power and Its Manifestations
- 3. The State: Problems of Definition. Towards a Partial Definition of the State. Jurisprudence and the State. The Modern State as a Historical Type. A Modern View of the Modern State
- 4. The State: Justification of Its Use of Force. The State and Its Use of Military Force. The State and Its Monopoly on the Use of Coercion. The State's Use of Coercion: A Legal Justification. The State's Use of Coercion: A Question of Jurisprudence? The State's Use of Coercion: A Philosophical Justification
- 5. The State: The Limits of Its Power. The State Intervention and Its Limits. Against a Liberal View of State Intervention. The State's Cultural Mission and the Limits of Its Intervention. The State and the Rights of Its Citizens. The Negative Ground. The Positive Ground. The Active Ground. Jovanovic and Contemporary Liberal Theories of Rights: A Comparison
- 6. Politics Under the Rule of Law. The Problems of Politics in Jovanovic's Writings. The Division of Powers and the Rule of Law. The Division of Powers and the Unity of the State. The Representative System and the Supremacy of the Legislature. The Representative System Without Popular Sovereignty. A Representative Legislature. The Electorate and the Competence of Legislators. Political Parties in Their Quest for Political Power. Public Opinion and Political Ideals
- 7. Politics in the State of the Masses. The Departure From the State Based on the Rule of Law. Political Ideologies and the State of the Masses. The State of the Masses and Its Future
- 8. Politics in a Revolution. The Revolution: Its Definition and Its Socio-Psychological Aspects. The Radicalization of Revolutions: An Explanation. The Triumph of Revolutionary Fanaticism over Military Force. The Institutionalization of Revolutionary Fanaticism: The Work of Danton. Fanaticism Triumphant: The Jacobin Terror. A Sociological Explanation or a Historical Biography?
- 9. The State: Moral or Amoral? Legality Without Morality: Jovanovic's Argument. A Moral Citizen in a Moral State: The Ideal of Plato. The Amorality of the State: Jovanovic on Machiavelli. The Superiority of the State to the Individual
- 10. The Morality of Politics. Private Versus Public Morality. Public Morality Abandoned. Private Morality and Its Influence on Politics. Jovanovic's Moral Vision and His Politics
- 11. Political Thought Without a Political Creed
- Appendix: Yugoslavia: Its Peoples, Politics, and Constitution. The Constitutional Question: An Outline of Its History. A Political Solution to the Serb-Croat Conflict: Jovanovic's Proposal. The Serbs in a Federal State. Works by Slobodan Jovanovic. Works on Jovanovic and His Times. Other Works Referred to in the Text.