1st Edition
Political Modernity and Social Theory Origins, Development and Alternatives
Introduction
Part I. The liberal infrastructure
1. Rights and citizenship
2. The state and the law
3. Power, agency and law
4. From abstract to concrete
5. Rights, state and the modern imaginary
Part II. Politics, dynamics and processes
6. Politics
7. State power
8. Political autonomy
9. Trends and phases of modernity
Part III. The international level
10. The international dimension of political modernity
Part IV. Political configurations and processes
11. Political Regimes
12. Political Processes
13. Democracy
Part V
Epilogue: political modernity, social change and critique
Biography
José Maurício Domingues is Professor of Social and Political Sciences at the State of Rio de Janeiro University in Brazil. He is the recipient of the Anneliese Maier Forschungspreis from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung and the author of numerous books in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, including Authoritarian Collectivism and ‘Real Socialism’ (2021), Emancipation and History: The Return of Social Theory (2018) and Latin American and Contemporary Modernity: A Sociological Interpretation (Routledge, 2008).
