{"product_id":"social-theory-of-the-nation-state","title":"Social Theory of the Nation-State","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Social Theory of the Nation-State: the political forms of modernity beyond methodological nationalism,\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIts 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:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eclassical (K. Marx, M. Weber, E. Durkheim)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003emodernist (T. Parsons, R. Aron, R. Bendix, B. Moore)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003econtemporary (M. Mann, E. Hobsbawm, U. Beck, M. Castells, N. Luhmann, J. Habermas)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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, \u003cem\u003eA Social Theory of the Nation-State\u003c\/em\u003e tries to account for the ‘opacity of the nation-state in modernity’.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54243426042200,"sku":"9780415439930","price":65.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415439930.jpg?v=1769731225","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/social-theory-of-the-nation-state","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}