prepolitical

That's how I came to write these studies on "prepolitical" politics.

Rezo.net 2010

Unfortunately, the reality is that while libertarians are rightly suspicious of leftist collectivism, most seem to regard right-wing collectivism as a prepolitical reality which one must ignore on principle (the pre-2006 LP; the Reason/Cato moderates) or should support and encourage as the natural alternative to the state (the paleos).

¡Papeles para tod@s! 1 May 2009, 3:30 PM @ Commercial Center Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada 2009

Herder and the romanti - cists directed attention to prepolitical, prerational foundations — the mother tongue, ancient folk tradi - tions, common descent, or the “national spirit.”

NATIONALISM HANS KOHN 1968

The priestly Torah was an entirely unpolitical or rather prepolitical institution; it had an existence before the state had, and it was one of the invisible foundation pillars on which the state rested.

Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

He regarded these prepolitical, interstitial communities as vital to the human personality and to the health of what we call the civil society.

Pajamas Media 2010

Most of us believe that governments are legitimate to the extent that they accord with some more fundamental, prepolitical norms.

Balderdash 2009

In Aristotle’s Politics, the subpolitical or prepolitical family relations point to the necessity of political rule and are perfected by it, whereas in the state-of-nature teachings, political rule is derived entirely from the need for protection of individuals, bypassing their social relations completely.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003

In Aristotle’s Politics, the subpolitical or prepolitical family relations point to the necessity of political rule and are perfected by it, whereas in the state-of-nature teachings, political rule is derived entirely from the need for protection of individuals, bypassing their social relations completely.

THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003