A Social Theory of the Nation-State: The Political Forms of Modernity Beyond Methodological NationalismA 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:
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’. |
Contents
breaking the equation between | |
the rise of capitalism and | |
politics and the sociological | |
moral universalism and | |
the totalitarian threat to | |
Raymond Aron 19051983 Barrington Moore 19132005 | |
Michael Mann 1942present and Eric Hobsbawm 1919 | |
Niklas Luhmann 19271998 and Jürgen Habermas 1929 | |
Closing remarks 159 | |
Notes 164 | |
Bibliography 171 | |
Index 185 | |
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