Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789047421528
Series Statement:
Brill eBook titles 2007
Uniform Title:
Subjektlose Gewalt
Content:
Preliminary Material /H. Gerstenberger and D. Fernbach -- Part One. The Rise Of Bourgeois States: Preconditions For An Explanation /H. Gerstenberger and D. Fernbach -- Part Two. From Ancien Régime To Bourgeois State: England /H. Gerstenberger and D. Fernbach -- Part Three. From Ancien Régime To Bourgeois Society: France /H. Gerstenberger and D. Fernbach -- Part Four. Results Of The Historical Comparison /H. Gerstenberger and D. Fernbach -- Part Five. The Organisation Of Generalised Power: A Conceptual Framework For Historical Epochs /H. Gerstenberger and D. Fernbach -- Annotated Bibliography /H. Gerstenberger and D. Fernbach -- Index /H. Gerstenberger and D. Fernbach.
Content:
The point of departure of Heide Gerstenberger’s path-breaking work is a critique of structural-functionalist theory of the state, in both its modernisation theory and materialist variants. Prof. Gerstenberger opposes to these a historical-theoretical explanation that proceeds from the long-term structuring effect of concrete social practice. This is elucidated by detailed investigation of the development of bourgeois state power in the two key examples of England and France. The different complexions that the bourgeois state assumed are presented as the results of processes of social and cultural formation, and thus irreducible to a simple function of capitalism. This approach culminates in the thesis that the bourgeois form of capitalist state power arose only where capitalist societies developed out of already rationalised structures of the Ancien Régime type
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [689]-789) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004130272
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9004130276
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789004130272
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/ej.9789004130272.i-803
