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Legitimacy and Revolution in a Society of Masses - Max Weber, Antonio Gramsci, and the Fin-de-Sicle Debate on Social Order (Paperback)
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Legitimacy and Revolution in a Society of Masses - Max Weber, Antonio Gramsci, and the Fin-de-Sicle Debate on Social Order (Paperback)
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Questions surrounding the concept of legitimacy the force that
keeps a polity together, and whose absence causes it to shatter are
possibly the most important concern of a study of politics. M. F.
N. Giglioli examines the shift to a distinctly modern understanding
of the concept in Continental Europe, following the crisis of
liberal rationalism in the late nineteenth century, and the search
for new ways of envisaging the determinants of collective action
into the twentieth century. The author examines certain aspects of
the intellectual and political background of early
twentieth-century theories of legitimacy elaborated by Max Weber
and Antonio Gramsci. These theories are interpreted as the outcome
of a contested process of redefinition of the concept, itself
prompted by the social and political circumstances of the late
nineteenth century, such as economic modernization and the attempt
to incorporate the working class into the political system. This is
the first book in a generation to offer a general reassessment of
issues of legitimacy in political thought at the turn of the
twentieth century. It examines the development of the concept in
France, Italy, and Germany during the half-century or so following
the Paris Commune. It discusses six key critics of classical
Victorian liberalism on the revolutionary Left and the conservative
Right. The political position and biography of each is a central
focus of the study, as the culture of the age was decisively shaped
by reflection on the social role of intellectuals.
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