Altbeker, Antony2014-03-062014-03-062014-03-06http://hdl.handle.net10539/14055"We assume that political systems are rationally devised and rationally employed, which is to say that they are appropriate instruments for the fulfilment of desires of members of the society" (Stigler, 1988b: 210). "[T]he name ‘Auschwitz’ invalidates the presuppositions ... that all that is real is rational, and all that is rational is real" (Lyotard, 1987:162).enThesis