Political Modernity and Social Theory : Origins, Development and Alternatives / Jose Maur cio Domingues.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Introduction -- 0.1 Theory and diagnosis of the times -- 0.2 Outline of parts and chapters -- 0.3 Three methodological strategies -- 0.4 Collective subjectivities and other concepts -- 0.5 Sources and references -- 0.6 Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Part I The liberal infrastructure -- Chapter 1 Rights and citizenship -- 1.1 Rights, rights-holders and the law -- 1.2 Rights -- 1.2.1 Elements of rights -- 1.2.2 Rights and the law -- 1.3 Rights and citizenship -- 1.4 Characteristics and reach of rights -- 1.5 Absolute or limited: rights and the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic -- 1.6 Rights from above -- Notes -- Chapter 2 The state and the law -- 2.1 From law to state -- 2.2 The law and the state -- 2.2.1 Rule of law and socialist legality -- 2.2.2 The judiciary -- 2.2.3 The police -- 2.3 The bureaucracy -- 2.4 Centring and decentring -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Power, agency and law -- 3.1 Power -- 3.2 Sovereignty -- 3.3 Constituent power and the Constitution -- 3.4 Political rights and representation -- 3.5 Authoritarian collectivism and the political dimension -- Notes -- Chapter 4 From abstract to concrete -- 4.1 Nation and people -- 4.2 Social rights, citizenship, social policy -- 4.2.1 Homogeneity and heterogeneity -- 4.2.2 Social rights and social citizenship, universalist and universalising social policy -- 4.2.3 Sectorialised policies -- 4.2.4 Entitlements and targeting, citizenship and market-oriented reforms -- 4.2.5 Universal basic income and minimum income -- 4.3 The state and concreteness -- 4.3.1 Law, complexity and particularism -- 4.3.2 The thickening of bureaucracy -- 4.3.3 Economic development -- 4.3.4 Neopatrimonialism and corruption -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Rights, state and the modern imaginary.

5.1 From abstract to concrete: a developmental trend -- 5.2 The trajectory of rights and the state -- 5.3 State centring and rationality -- 5.4 Legitimation and legitimacy -- 5.5 Political modernity and the imaginary -- Notes -- Part II Politics, dynamics and processes -- Chapter 6 Politics -- 6.1 Liberalism and republic -- 6.2 Republic and democracy -- 6.3 The political system -- 6.4 Political collectivities -- 6.5 Reproduction, crisis and change -- Notes -- Chapter 7 State power -- 7.1 The coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic and the fate of neoliberalism -- 7.2 Elements and overall state power -- 7.2.1 Capabilities -- 7.2.2 Total state power -- 7.3 The strengthening of the state -- 7.4 The state and societal collectivities -- 7.5 State power: a formalisation -- 7.6 The return of the state? Some recent developments -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Political autonomy -- 8.1 Horizontality, verticality, autonomy -- 8.2 Autonomy and authority -- 8.2.1 Autonomy and freedom -- 8.2.2 Authority and hierarchy -- 8.2.3 The full analytical framework -- 8.3 Autonomy in modernity and beyond -- 8.4 The radicalisation of autonomy -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Trends and phases of modernity -- 9.1 State strengthening and the expansion of autonomy and freedom -- 9.2 The emergence and long-term strengthening of the modern state -- 9.3 The emergence and development of autonomy and freedom -- 9.4 Trends and the phases of modernity -- Notes -- Part III The international level -- Chapter 10 The international dimension of political modernity -- 10.1 States, system of states and the contradictory dynamic of modernity -- 10.2 International assemblages, states' dynamic -- 10.2.1 The dyad in inter-state relations -- 10.2.2 Mores and trade -- 10.2.3 Sovereignty and international organisations -- 10.2.4 International law -- 10.2.5 Regimes -- 10.2.6 Peace and war: political processes.

10.3 Opposition and complementarity: capabilities and human rights -- 10.3.1 Capabilities, total power and power-sharing -- 10.3.2 Human rights and autonomy -- 10.3.3 Mechanisms and developmental trends -- 10.4 The international political system -- 10.5 Antagonism and organisation globally: phases of modernity -- Notes -- Part IV Political configurations and processes -- Chapter 11 Political regimes -- 11.1 Political systems and political regimes -- 11.2 The constitution of political regimes -- 11.2.1 Basic configuration -- 11.2.2 Elements -- 11.3 Models -- 11.4 Oligarchy, autocracy and the party-state -- 11.5 Legitimation, legitimacy and crisis -- 11.6 Political regimes and capitalism -- Notes -- Chapter 12 Political processes -- 12.1 Reproduction and change -- 12.2 Political cycles -- 12.3 Coup d' etat -- 12.4 Revolution and molecular processes -- Notes -- Chapter 13 Democracy -- 13.1 Liberal democracy: the need for qualification -- 13.2 From the Commune to the Soviets and beyond -- 13.3 Radical democracy and immanent critique -- 13.4 Radical democracy and plebeianism -- Notes -- Part V -- Epilogue: Political modernity, social change and critique -- References -- Index.

An in-depth investigation of political modernity, Political Modernity and Social Theory proposes an encompassing and far-reaching approach spanning past and present - stressing radical plebeian democracy and maintaining a strong opening to the future and to possible alternatives to modernity.

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