The Political Forms Of Modern Society
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The Political Forms Of Modern Society
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Author : Claude Lefort
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1986-08-26
The Political Forms Of Modern Society written by Claude Lefort and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-08-26 with Philosophy categories.
Claude Lefort is one of the leading social and political theorists in France today. This anthology of his most important work published over the last four decades makes his writing widely accessible to an English-speaking audience for the first time. With exceptional skill Lefort combines the analysis of contemporary political events with a sensitivity to the history of political thought. His critical account of the development of bureaucracy and totalitarianism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe is a timely contribution to current debates about the nature and shortcomings of these societies. His incisive analyses of Marx's theory of history and concept of ideology provide the backdrop for a highly original account of the role of symbolism in modern societies. While critical of many traditional assumptions and doctrines, Lefort develops a political position based on a reappraisal of the idea of human rights and a reconsideration of what "democracy" means today. The Political Forms of Modern Society is a major contribution to contemporary social and political theory. The volume includes a substantial introduction that describes the context of Lefort's writings and highlights the central themes of his work.
Machiavelli In The Making
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Author : Claude Lefort
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2012-03-30
Machiavelli In The Making written by Claude Lefort and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-30 with Philosophy categories.
In Machiavelli in the Making, the influential French scholar and public intellectual Claude Lefort introduces a wholly novel interpretation of Niccoló Machiavelli's oeuvre, revealing in the Florentine's thought a thoroughly modern concept of the political with implications for "our experience of politics here and now." Lefort extricates Machiavelli's thought from the dominant interpretations of Machiavelli as the founder of "objective" political science, which, having liberated itself from the religious and moralizing tendencies of medieval political reflection, attempts to arrive at a realistic discourse on the operations of raw power. Lefort ultimately finds that Machiavelli's discourse opens the "place of the political," which had previously been occupied by theology and morality. An essential contribution to the ongoing reassessment of Machiavelli's significance, Machiavelli in the Making also stands as a crucial text for the understanding of Lefort's later writings on democracy and totallitarianism.
Claude Lefort
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Author : M. Plot
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-06-11
Claude Lefort written by M. Plot and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-11 with Social Science categories.
This is the first English language volume to offer such a wide-ranging scholarly and intellectual perspective on Claude Lefort. It constitutes the most comprehensive attempt to reconstruct Lefort's engagement with his theoretical interlocutors as well as his influence on today's democratic thought and contemporary continental political philosophy.
Complications
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Author : Claude Lefort
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2007
Complications written by Claude Lefort and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Complications: Communism and the Dilemmas of Democracyties together the central concerns of the work of Claude Lefort over the past half-century. A pivotal figure in French thought, Lefort studied under Maurice Merleau-Ponty, cofounded with Cornelius Castoriadis the influential journal Socialisme ou Barbarie, and famously engaged in a heated debate with Jean-Paul Sartre over the Soviet Union and Communist parties in the West. He has influenced generations of political thinkers and throughout his career has offered invaluable leftist, non-communist critiques of both liberalism and Communism. It is the prevailing belief that the death of communism was a victory for liberal democracy. In Complications, however, Lefort challenges this interpretation and provides new ways of understanding the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and the Communist phenomenon. Lefort engages the work of prominent historians Martin Malia and Francois Furet and shows how their emphasis on "illusion" and ideology led to their failure to understand the logic and workings of the Communist Party, and its impact on Soviet society, and the reasons why so many in the West had Communist sympathies. He also maintains that those who regard the end of Communism as the triumph of markets and "freedom" restrict the scope of democratic thought and the possibility of greater social equality. Lefort contends that Communism must be seen as part of a larger history of modernity and believes that the diagnosis of its death is dangerous to the future of democracy. In the tradition of Hannah Arendt and Raymond Aron, Lefort complicates the pieties of historical understanding and offers a new approach to thinking about totalitarianism and a more vital democracy.
Understanding Modern Societies An Introduction 2 The Political And Economic Forms Of Modernity
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Author : John Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Understanding Modern Societies An Introduction 2 The Political And Economic Forms Of Modernity written by John Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Social structure categories.
Institutions In Modern Society
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Author : Jeffrey E. Nash
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1993
Institutions In Modern Society written by Jeffrey E. Nash and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Philosophy categories.
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A Social Theory Of The Nation State
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Author : Daniel Chernilo
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-03-25
A Social Theory Of The Nation State written by Daniel Chernilo and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-25 with Social Science categories.
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’.
Governmentality
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Author : Mitchell Dean
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2010
Governmentality written by Mitchell Dean and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Political Science categories.
Originally published in 1999 this exceptionally clear and lucid book quickly became the standard overview of what are now called ‘governmentality studies’. In this timely Second Edition, Mitchell Dean engages with the full textual basis of Foucault’s lecturers and once again provides invaluable insights into the traditions, methods, and theories of political power identifying the authoritarian as well as liberal sides of governmentality.
Understanding Modern Societies An Introduction 2 The Political And Economic Forms Of Modernity
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Author : John Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Understanding Modern Societies An Introduction 2 The Political And Economic Forms Of Modernity written by John Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Social structure categories.
Classes In Modern Society
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Author : T. B. Bottomore
language : en
Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books
Release Date : 1966
Classes In Modern Society written by T. B. Bottomore and has been published by New York : Pantheon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Social classes categories.