Critical Theory and Political Modernity

This book draws together philosophy, jurisprudence, political science, and international relations to study the main categories of political modernity and its development trends. Grounded in critical theoryfrom Marx to later currents such as the Frankfurt SchoolCritical Theory and Political Modernity circulates around state power and oligarchy as well as emancipatory possibilities from their foundations to the present, such as radical democracy. Domingues analyzes the main categories of political modernity, including the juridical dimension, to conceptually articulate its long-term processes of development. In so doing, he examines rights, law and citizenship, state and domination abstract and concrete, the political system, state power, freedom and autonomy, scalar configurations, political regimes, oligarchy and democracy.

Articulates the categories underpinning modern political life through analytical jurisprudence Bridges the analytical with the qualitative theories of classical sociology and political theory Analyzes the political regimes of modernity alongside other political realities such as capitalist economies and class structures

Autorentext

José Maurício Domingues is Professor of Sociology in the Institute of Social and Political Studies at Rio de Janiero State University, Brazil. He is the recipient of the Anneliese Maier Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany, for 2018-2023 and is the author of, among other texts, Emancipation and History: The Return of Social Theory (2018), Global Modernity, Development, and Contemporary Civilization: Towards a Renewal of Critical Theory (2012), and Latin American and Contemporary Modernity: A Sociological Interpretation (2008).

Inhalt
Introduction.- Part I.- Chapter 1: The Dual Individual and Its Rights.- Chapter 2: The State as Abstraction.- Chapter 3: From Abstract to Concrete.- Part II.- Chapter 4: The Political System.- Chapter 5: State Power, Autonomy, and Developmental Trends.- Chapter 6: The Developmental Dynamics of Citizenship and Autonomy.- Chapter 7: Global Ramifications: Sovereignty and Autonomy.- Part III.- Chapter 8: Regimes. - Chapter 9: Radical Democracy.