The point of departure of Heide Gerstenberger's path-breaking work
is a critique of structural-functionalist theory of the state, in
both its modernisation theory and materialist variants. Prof.
Gerstenberger opposes to these a historical-theoretical explanation
that proceeds from the long-term structuring effect of concrete
social practice. This is elucidated by detailed investigation of
the development of bourgeois state power in the two key examples of
England and France. The different complexions that the bourgeois
state assumed are presented as the results of processes of social
and cultural formation, and thus irreducible to a simple function
of capitalism. This approach culminates in the thesis that the
bourgeois form of capitalist state power arose only where
capitalist societies developed out of already rationalised
structures of the "Ancien Regime" type.
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