The Masks of Proteus

Winner of the Harold Innis Book Prize

A collection of 12 essays, providing comparative perspectives on the modern state, arguing that the power of the state takes many different forms and cannot be revealed by any single discipline.In this collection of twelve essays Philip Resnick provides a comparative perspective on the modern state, arguing that the power of the state, like the mythological god Proteus, takes many dfferent forms and cannot be revealed by any single discipline. He delves into political theory, political economy, and political socieology, as well as examining a number of isms important to any treatment of the modern state.