Darrow Schecter

Critical theory and sociological theory

On late modernity and social statehood

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Produktbeschreibung

Rearticulating critical theory with a contemporary focus, this book investigates how the conditions of democratic statehood have changed at key historical intervals since 1945. It argues that a sociological approach is needed to address conceptual deficits and explain how the mechanisms of democratic statehood can be updated today. -- .

Produktdetails

• Critical Theory and Contemporary Society
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9781526105851
• ISBN-10: 1526105853
• Artikelnr.: 60327479

Autorenporträt

Darrow Schecter is Professor of Critical Theory and Modern European History at the University of Sussex

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 Reconsidering the theoretical preconditions of modern
democratic statehood: on mediated unity and overarching legal-political
form 2 Mediated unity in question: on the relation between law, politics,
and other social systems in modern societies 3 Functional differentiation
and mediated unity in question: looming constitutional conflicts between
the de-centralist logic of FD and the bio-political steering of austerity
and global governance 4 Dilemmas of contemporary statehood: on the
sociological paradoxes of weak dialectical formalism and embedded
neo-liberalism 5 Re-thinking inclusion beyond unity and mediation beyond
discretionary steering: on social systems and societal constitutions
Conclusion: democratic state, capitalist society, or dysfunctional
differentiation? Index