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Jonathan Hearn - The Domestication of Competition, Inbunden

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The Domestication of Competition

Social Evolution and Liberal Society

Av Jonathan Hearn

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Beskrivning
Competition is deeply built into the structures of modern life. It can improve policies, products and services, but is also seen as a divisive burden that pits people against one another. This book seeks to go beyond such caricatures by advancing a new thesis about how competition came to shape our society. Jonathan Hearn argues that competition was 'domesticated', harnessed and institutionalised across a range of institutional spheres in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Responding to crises in traditional forms of authority (hereditary, religious), the formalisation of competition in the economy, politics, and diverse new forms of knowledge creation provided a new mode for legitimating distributions of power in the emerging liberal societies. This insightful study aims to improve our ability to think critically about competition, by better understanding its integral role, for good and ill, in how liberal forms of society work.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2023-02-16
  • Mått: 158 x 235 x 23 mm
  • Vikt: 630 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 330
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781009199155
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Jonathan Hearn is Professor of Political and Historical Sociology at the University of Edinburgh and President of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism. His published writings explore themes of social power, nationalism and identity, Scotland and its Enlightenment, liberal and civil society, and competition.

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'Only a scholar from social anthropology could have written this book! It locates and analyses the cultural code on which our societies depend, that of competition. It does so with skill and nuance, stressing the role played by regulation and law in ensuring social progress. This is a wholly original, path-breaking book, challenging assumptions about competition found on both the left and the right, and likely to cause a stir in many disciplines.' John Hall, McGill University

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