Appeals to Interest

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction: The Politics of Interest

2. Property, Usury, and the Juridical Subject of Interest

3. Appeals to Interest in Seventeenth-Century England

4. Contesting Sovereignty: Interest in Thomas Hobbes

5. A Historiography of Liberal Interest and the Neoliberal Self

6. Interest in Political Studies: Action, Grouping, and Government

Epilogue: The Language of Interest as a Critical Theory of Politics

Selected Bibliography

Index

“Appeals to Interest is a meticulous work, compelling and full of insight. It provides a resoundingly astute analysis of how and why appeals to interest depend on agency, specifically in terms of ‘who’ an agent is. There is no doubt that this book has the potential to add substantially to our understanding of the ever-evolving realm of politics.”

—Akinbola E. Akinwumi, Political Studies Review