Critical theory and sociological theory : on late modernity and social statehood /: on late modernity and social statehood. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Darrow Schecter.
• Authors: Schecter, Darrow
• Contents: Introduction; 1 Reconsidering the theoretical preconditions of modern democratic statehood: on mediated unity and overarching legal-political form; 2 Mediated unity in question: on the relation between law, politics, and other social systems in modern societies; 3 Functional differentiation and mediated unity in question: looming constitutional conflicts between the de-centralist logic of FD and the bio-political steering of austerity and global governance; 4 Dilemmas of contemporary statehood: on the sociological paradoxes of weak dialectical formalism and embedded neo-liberalism; 5 Re-thinking inclusion beyond unity and mediation beyond discretionary steering: on social systems and societal constitutions; Conclusion: democratic state, capitalist society, or dysfunctional differentiation?; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 301.01; Critical theory; Sociology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526105868; 9781526142269
• Related ISBNs: 9781526105844
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