Montesquieu has often been considered the first social theorist.
Today, when a number of authors have pronounced 'the end of the
social', it is time to reconsider its beginnings. What did it mean
to 'discover the social'? What did it allow one to say that could
not previously be said? What sorts of epistemological moves were
required in order for this discovery to become possible? This book
responds to these questions with a wide-ranging, original
interpretation of The Spirit of the Laws. It demonstrates that
Montesquieu provides several different senses and usages of the
social, each of which builds on the others. The result is a
'divided concept' that challenges later, more simplistic
understandings, and allows him to illuminate a number of the
fractures central to our modernity. The last chapter brings the
discussion forward, and asks what can be retrieved from Montesquieu
in order to confront the present crisis of the social and its
associated disciplines.
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