Daniel Chernilo

A Social Theory of the Nation-State (eBook, PDF)

The Political Forms of Modernity Beyond Methodological Nationalism

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Produktbeschreibung

A Social Theory of the Nation-State: the political forms of modernity beyond methodological nationalism, construes a novel and original social theory of the nation-state. It rejects nationalistic ways of thinking that take the nation-state for granted as much as globalist orthodoxy that speaks of its current and definitive decline.

Its main aim is therefore to provide a renovated account of the nation-state's historical development and recent global challenges via an analysis of the writings of key social theorists. This reconstruction of the history of the nation-state into three periods:

• classical (K. Marx, M. Weber, E. Durkheim)
• modernist (T. Parsons, R. Aron, R. Bendix, B. Moore)
• contemporary (M. Mann, E. Hobsbawm, U. Beck, M. Castells, N. Luhmann, J. Habermas)

For each phase, it introduces social theory's key views about the nation-state, its past, present and future. In so doing this book rejects methodological nationalism, the claim that the nation-state is the necessary representation of the modern society, because it misrepresents the nation-state's own problematic trajectory in modernity. And methodological nationalism is also rejected because it is unable to capture the richness of social theory's intellectual canon. Instead, via a strong conception of society and a subtler notion of the nation-state, A Social Theory of the Nation-State tries to account for the 'opacity of the nation-state in modernity'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134150120
• Artikelnr.: 42982391

Autorenporträt

Daniel Chernilo is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University Alberto Hurtado in Chile and a Fellow of the Centre for Social Theory at the University of Warwick in England.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Understanding the Nation
State 1. The Critique of Methodological Nationalism: A Debate in Two Waves 2. A Claim to Universalism: Breaking the Equation between the Nation
State and Society Apart Part 2: Classical Social Theory 3. Karl Marx (1818
1883): The Rise of Capitalism and the Historical Elusiveness of the Nation
State 4. Max Weber (1864
1920): Politics and the Sociological Equivocations of the Nation
State 5. Emile Durkheim (1857
1917): Moral Universalism and the Normative Ambiguity of the Nation
State Part 3: Modernist Social Theory 6. Talcott Parsons (1902
1979): The Totalitarian Threat to the Nation
State 7. Raymond Aron (1905
1983), Barrington Moore (1913
2005) and Reinhardt Bendix (1916
1991): Industrialism and the Historicity of the Nation
State Part 4: Contemporary Social Theory 8. Michael Mann (1942
present) and Eric Hobsbawm (1919
present): Classes, Nations and Different Conceptions of the Nation
State 9. Manuel Castells (1942
present) and Globalization Theorists: The 'Definitive' Decline of the Nation
State 10. Niklas Luhmann (1927
1998) and Jurgen Habermas (1929
present): World Society, Cosmopolitanism and the Nation
state. Closing Remarks