Contemporary and Gramscian Critical Socio-Historical Views on State and Revolutions

This paper intends to feed a methodological, theoretical and philosophical reflexion on the critical perspectives historical and political sociology can imply or afford as regards the formation of the modern State and its developments. Indeed, whether they are classical or contemporary, many politic...

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Main Author: Florence Di Bonaventura
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Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2017-11-01
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Online Access:https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/1419
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spelling doaj-d9a031e7352042bba0cff06dff7bbd632021-06-02T11:48:53ZengFirenze University PressCambio2239-11182017-11-0171310.13128/cambio-21912Contemporary and Gramscian Critical Socio-Historical Views on State and RevolutionsFlorence Di Bonaventura0Université Saint-Louis – BruxellesThis paper intends to feed a methodological, theoretical and philosophical reflexion on the critical perspectives historical and political sociology can imply or afford as regards the formation of the modern State and its developments. Indeed, whether they are classical or contemporary, many political sociologists or socio-historians have bequeathed or proposed socio-historical intuitions, (self-) critical reflexions or innovative tools enabling us to better understand the relations between the State and (civil) society as well as the power relations that could lead to stability or instability of political regimes over time; and to enrich contemporary debates on the meanings of the State, democracy and related concepts. These authors of the past and the present have often been questioning and critical, enabling us to relativise the Eurocentric and deterministic character historical sociology is sometimes "accused" of, whereof its authors were or are more or less conscious.https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/1419Critical Socio-historical Views(Passive) RevolutionsTemporalitiesState and SocietyModern Universalisms
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Contemporary and Gramscian Critical Socio-Historical Views on State and Revolutions
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Critical Socio-historical Views
(Passive) Revolutions
Temporalities
State and Society
Modern Universalisms
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title Contemporary and Gramscian Critical Socio-Historical Views on State and Revolutions
title_short Contemporary and Gramscian Critical Socio-Historical Views on State and Revolutions
title_full Contemporary and Gramscian Critical Socio-Historical Views on State and Revolutions
title_fullStr Contemporary and Gramscian Critical Socio-Historical Views on State and Revolutions
title_full_unstemmed Contemporary and Gramscian Critical Socio-Historical Views on State and Revolutions
title_sort contemporary and gramscian critical socio-historical views on state and revolutions
publisher Firenze University Press
series Cambio
issn 2239-1118
publishDate 2017-11-01
description This paper intends to feed a methodological, theoretical and philosophical reflexion on the critical perspectives historical and political sociology can imply or afford as regards the formation of the modern State and its developments. Indeed, whether they are classical or contemporary, many political sociologists or socio-historians have bequeathed or proposed socio-historical intuitions, (self-) critical reflexions or innovative tools enabling us to better understand the relations between the State and (civil) society as well as the power relations that could lead to stability or instability of political regimes over time; and to enrich contemporary debates on the meanings of the State, democracy and related concepts. These authors of the past and the present have often been questioning and critical, enabling us to relativise the Eurocentric and deterministic character historical sociology is sometimes "accused" of, whereof its authors were or are more or less conscious.
topic Critical Socio-historical Views
(Passive) Revolutions
Temporalities
State and Society
Modern Universalisms
url https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/cambio/article/view/1419
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