The Political Forms Of Modern Society

Author : Claude Lefort
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1986-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262620543

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The Political Forms of Modern Society by Claude Lefort Pdf

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.

Author : M. Plot
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230375581

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Claude Lefort by M. Plot Pdf

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.

Author : Claude Lefort
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810124370

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Machiavelli in the Making by Claude Lefort Pdf

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.

Author : Bernard Flynn
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810121065

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The Philosophy of Claude Lefort by Bernard Flynn Pdf

This study of Claude Lefort offers an account of Lefort's accomplishment - its unique merits, its relation to political philosophy within the Continental tradition, and its great relevance today.

Author : Mitchell Dean
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781446242865

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Governmentality by Mitchell Dean Pdf

"Mitchell Dean has written an outstandingly clear and scholarly introduction to the central theses and methods of the analysis of the mentalities and techniques of rule... He not only provides a guide to Foucault′s own thought in this area, but he also draws upon other key thinkers in contemporary social theory to develop original and illuminating analysis of some principle formations of political power. Dean′s book should become required reading not just for those interested in the work of Michel Foucault, but for all those who are concerned with the dilemmas of contemporary politics." - Nikolas Rose, Goldsmiths, Praise for the First Edition Originally published in 1999 this exceptionally clear and lucid book quickly became the standard overview of what are now called ′governmentality studies′. With its emphasis on the relationship between governmentality and other key concepts drawn from Michel Foucault, such as bio-politics and sovereignty, the first edition anticipated and defined the terms of contemporary debate and analysis. In this timely second edition Mitchell Dean engages with the full textual basis of Foucault′s lectures 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. Every chapter has been fully revised and updated to incorporate, and respond to, new theoretical, social and political developments in the field; a new introduction surveying the state of governmentality today has also been added as well as a completely new chapter on international governmentality.

Author : Jeffrey E. Nash,James M. Calonico
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0930390067

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Institutions in Modern Society by Jeffrey E. Nash,James M. Calonico Pdf

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Author : Claude Lefort
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0231133006

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Complications by Claude Lefort Pdf

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.

Author : T. B. Bottomore
Publisher : New York : Pantheon Books
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Social classes
ISBN : UOM:39015000087596

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Classes in Modern Society by T. B. Bottomore Pdf

Author : John Allen,Stuart Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social structure
ISBN : 0745609627

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Understanding modern societies : an introduction. 2. The political and economic forms of modernity by John Allen,Stuart Hall Pdf

Author : Daniel Chernilo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134150120

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A Social Theory of the Nation-State by Daniel Chernilo Pdf

A Social Theory of the Nation-State 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.

Author : Marshall Berman
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781844674404

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The Politics of Authenticity by Marshall Berman Pdf

In this acclaimed exploration of the search for “authentic” individual identity, Marshall Berman explores the historical experiences and needs out of which this new radicalism arose. Focussing on eighteenth-century Paris, a time and place in which a distinctively modern form of society was just coming into its own, Berman shows how the ideal of authenticity—of a self that could organize the individual’s energy and direct it toward his own happiness—articulated eighteenth-century man’s deepest responses to this brave new world, and his most ardent hope for a new life in it. Exploring in particular the ideas of Montesquieu and Rousseau, Berman shows how the ideal of authenticity was radically opposed to the bourgeois, capitalistic idea of “self-interest.”

Author : Christian Viveros-Faune
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781941701904

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Social Forms: A Short History of Political Art by Christian Viveros-Faune Pdf

In an increasingly polarized world, with shifting and extreme politics, Social Forms illustrates artists at the forefront of political and social resistance. Highlighting different moments of crisis and how these are reflected and preserved through crucial artworks, it also asks how to make art in the age of Brexit, Trump, and the refugee and climate crises. In Social Forms: A Short History of Political Art, renowned critic, curator, and writer Christian Viveros-Fauné has picked fifty representative artworks—from Francisco de Goya’s The Disasters of War (1810–1820) to David Hammons’s In the Hood (1993)—that give voice to some of modern art’s strongest calls to political action. In accessible and witty entries on each piece, Viveros-Fauné paints a picture of the context in which each work was created, the artist’s background, and the historical impact of each contribution. At times artists create projects that subvert existing power structures; at other moments they make artwork so powerful it challenges the very fabric of society. Whether it is Picasso’s Guernica and its place at the 1937 Worlds Fair, or Jenny Holzer’s Truisms (1977–1979), which still stop us in our tracks, this book tells the story behind some of the most important and unexpected encounters between artworks and the real worlds they engage with. Never professing to be a definitive history of political art, Social Forms delivers a unique and compelling portrait of how artists during the last 150 years have dealt with changing political systems, the violence of modern warfare, the rise of consumer culture worldwide, the prevalence of inequality and racism, and the challenges of technology.

Author : John Allen,Stuart Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social structure
ISBN : 0745609619

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Understanding modern societies : an introduction. 2. The political and economic forms of modernity by John Allen,Stuart Hall Pdf

Author : Robert Michels
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780029212509

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Political Parties by Robert Michels Pdf

In this book Michels analyzes the tendencies that oppose the realization of democracy, and claims that these tendencies can be classified in three ways: dependence upon the nature of the individual; dependence upon the nature of the political structure; and dependence upon the nature of organization. This edition, described by Morris Janowitz as a "classic of modern social science" and by Melvin Tumin as "the beginning of a tradition", offers a landmark study in political science. Following its original publication in 1910, the study and analysis of political parties was established as a new branch of science. Political Parties continues to be a foundation work in the literature and is a necessary addition to the libraries of contemporary political scientists, sociologists, and historians. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1977-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780029328804

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Law in Modern Society by Roberto Mangabeira Unger Pdf

"Law in Modern Society" is a comparative study of the place of law in societies as well as a criticism of social theory. Under what conditions do different kinds of law emerge? What are the bases of the rule of law ideal that marks advanced liberal, capitalist societies? What can the study of law teach us about social hierarchy and moral vision in these societies, and, indeed, about the specificity of Western civilization? Why do we find it necessary to struggle for the rule of law and impossible to achieve it? What political possibilities are closed or opened by present-day changes in the established styles of legality and legal thought? Unger deals with these questions in a broad range of historical settings. But he also relates them to the central issues of social theory: the method of explanation, the conditions of social order, and the nature of 'modern' society. the book argues that to resolve its own internal dilemmas the science of society must once again become both metaphysical and political.