Darrow Schecter

Critical theory and sociological theory (eBook, ePUB)

On late modernity and social statehood

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Democracy in the twenty-first century faces a number of major challenges, populism, neoliberalism and globalisation being three of the most prominent. This book examines such challenges by investigating how the conditions of democratic statehood have been altered at several key historical intervals since 1945. It demonstrates that the formal mechanisms of democratic statehood, such as elections, have always been complemented by civic, cultural, educational, socio-economic and constitutional institutions that mediate between citizens and state authority. Rearticulating critical theory with a contemporary focus, the book shows why a sociological approach is urgently needed to address conceptual deficits and explain how the formal mechanisms of democratic statehood need to be complemented and updated in new ways today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526105868
• Artikelnr.: 57473482

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