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A Social Theory of the Nation-State - The Political Forms of Modernity Beyond Methodological Nationalism (Hardcover)
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A Social Theory of the Nation-State - The Political Forms of Modernity Beyond Methodological Nationalism (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Realism: Interventions Routledge Critical Realism
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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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