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9780203932650

A Social Theory of the Nation-State: The Political Forms of Modernity beyond Methodological Nationalism

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  • ISBN13:

    9780203932650

  • ISBN10:

    020393265X

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-07-17
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

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 Biography

Daniel Chernilo is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University Alberto Hurtado in Chile and a Fellow of the Centre for Social Theory at the University of Warwick in England.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
The opacity of the nation-state's position in modernity
The critique of methodological nationalism: A debate in two waves
A claim to universalism: Breaking the equation between the nation-state and society apart
Classical Social Theory
The rise of capitalism and the historical elusiveness of the nation-state
Politics and the sociological equivocations of the nation-state
Moral universalism and the normative ambiguity of the nation-state
Modernist Social Theory
The totalitarian threat to the nation-state
Industrialism and the historicity of the nation-state
Contemporary Social Theory
Classes, nations and different conceptions of the nation-state
Globalisation and the "definitive' decline of the nation-state
World society, cosmopolitanism and the nation-state Closing remarks
Bibliography
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