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Registration number 5917
del 31/10/2005
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di Torino - Ufficio Stampa

ISSN: 2039-7488

Special Issue

The "special" issue collects the suggestion coming from the users of the Bulletin, with regards to relevant articles published in journals that the Bulletin does not cover, or earlier than 2004. It will be updated at each new issue of the Bulletin, allowing the search in the archive of the Bulletin to access an ever-growing bibliography. It is the instrument to make the Bulletin not just a service provided by the Centre for Studies on Federalism, but an instrument for and of the international academic community, which can actively contribute to its development, by sending suggestions to the editorial coordinator at castaldi@csfederalismo.it.

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INDEX

Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government

Section B) Global governance and international organizations

Section C) Regional integration processes

Section D) Federalism as a political idea

Section D) Federalism as a political idea
Subsection 2.Nationalism

Chernilo Daniel

A Social Theory of the Nation-State. The Political Forms of Modernity Beyond Methodological Nationalism

Ed. Routledge , London/New York , 2007
Page 196
ISBN 978-0-415-43993-0

A Social Theory of the Nation-State: the political forms of modernity beyond methodological nationalism, 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. Its main aim is therefore to provide a renovated account of the nation-state’s historical development and recent global challenges via an analysis of the writings of key social theorists. This reconstruction of the history of the nation-state into three periods: •classical (K. Marx, M. Weber, E. Durkheim) •modernist (T. Parsons, R. Aron, R. Bendix, B. Moore) •contemporary (M. Mann, E. Hobsbawm, U. Beck, M. Castells, N. Luhmann, J. Habermas) For each phase, it introduces social theory’s key views about the nation-state, its past, present and future. In so doing this book rejects methodological nationalism, the claim that the nation-state is the necessary representation of the modern society, because it misrepresents the nation-state’s own problematic trajectory in modernity. And methodological nationalism is also rejected because it is unable to capture the richness of social theory’s intellectual canon. Instead, via a strong conception of society and a subtler notion of the nation-state, A Social Theory of the Nation-State tries to account for the ‘opacity of the nation-state in modernity’.

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