The Work of Politics

Making a Democratic Welfare State

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

AvSteven Klein

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The Work of Politics advances a new understanding of how democratic social movements work with welfare institutions to challenge structures of domination. Klein develops a novel theory that depicts welfare institutions as "worldly mediators," or sites of democratic world-making fostering political empowerment and participation within the context of capitalist economic forces. Drawing on the writings of Weber, Arendt, and Habermas, and historical episodes that range from the workers' movement in Bismarck's Germany to post-war Swedish feminism, this book challenges us to rethink the distribution of power in society, as well as the fundamental concerns of democratic theory. Ranging across political theory and intellectual history, The Work of Politics provides a vital contribution to contemporary thinking about the future of the welfare state.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-02-17
Mått151 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt300 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor222
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108745970

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Statsvetenskap och politisk teori inom Samhälle och politik

Introduction; 1. Domination and the welfare state: direct, structural, and abstract; 2. From calculation to domination: Max Weber on democracy and the welfare state; 3. From value to world: Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, and the politics of world-making; 4. From world to emancipation: Jürgen Habermas, domination, and the welfare state revisited; Conclusion. Democratic theory and the future of the welfare state.

'The welfare state is a site of intense democracy, where workers, women, people of color, and immigrants take radical action on their own behalf. In a fascinating reconstruction of more than a century's thinking – from Weber to Habermas and beyond – Klein gives us not only the most discerning and robust theory of the welfare state to date, but a way to think past the welfare state, to show us what democratic agency in a 21st century political economy might be.' Corey Robin, Brooklyn College