Телеграм канал «Политическая теория и философия (Political theory and philosophy)»

XXXII БАННЫЕ ЧТЕНИЯ. Генезис советской гуманитарной науки: институции, биографии, идеологемы

Ландшафты советской гуманитарной теории

Александр Дмитриев. Поколения и переломы: 1984, или 20 лет спустя
Тимур Атнашев. Рефлексия современности как горизонт советских общественных наук в конце 1960-х гг.
Илья Калинин. Ландшафты гуманитарной теории: закон обратной перспективы и производство пространства
Олеся Кирчик. Кибернетика и эпистемологические сдвиги в гуманитарных науках периода холодной войны (СССР и Запад)

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Sociology and Empire. The Imperial Entanglements of a Discipline (2013)

The revelation that the U.S. Department of Defense had hired anthropologists for its Human Terrain System project assisting its operations in Afghanistan and Iraq caused an uproar that has obscured the participation of sociologists in similar Pentagon-funded projects. As the contributors to Sociology and Empire show, such affiliations are not new. Sociologists have been active as advisers, theorists, and analysts of Western imperialism for more than a century.

The collection has a threefold agenda: to trace an intellectual history of sociology as it pertains to empire; to offer empirical studies based around colonies and empires, both past and present; and to provide a theoretical basis for future sociological analyses that may take empire more fully into account. In the 1940s, the British Colonial Office began employing sociologists in its African colonies. In Nazi Germany, sociologists played a leading role in organizing the occupation of Eastern Europe. In the United States, sociology contributed to modernization theory, which served as an informal blueprint for the postwar American empire. This comprehensive anthology critiques sociology's disciplinary engagement with colonialism in varied settings while also highlighting the lasting contributions that sociologists have made to the theory and history of imperialism.

State/Culture: State-Formation after the Cultural Turn

What impact does culture have on state-formation and public policy? How do states affect national and local cultures? How is the ongoing cultural turn in theory reshaping our understanding of the Western and modernizing states, long viewed as the radiant core of a universal, context-free rationality? This eagerly awaited volume brings together pioneering scholars who reexamine the sociology of the state and historical processes of state-formation in light of developments in cultural analysis.

The volume first examines some of the unsatisfying ways in which cultural processes have been discussed in social science literature on the state. It demonstrates new and sophisticated approaches to understanding both the role culture plays in the formation of states and the state's influence on broad cultural developments. The book includes theoretical essays and empirical studies; the latter essays are concerned with early modern European nations, non-European countries undergoing political modernization, and twentieth-century Western nation-states.

Fred L. Block - Revising state theory: Essays in politics and postindustrialism (1987)

This volume makes available in one place a complete statement of Fred Block's perspective for students and participants in the ongoing debate on state theory. His substantial Introduction serves as an intellectual autobiography in which he assesses the field-including the theories of Domhoff, Poulantzas, and Skocpoland situates his own work within it. Block also discusses his relationship to different strands of Marxism. In his analysis of the relationship between business and the state, Block argues that while business interests have far more influence over state policy than other constituencies, state actors still have substantial autonomy in formulating policies.In particular, the business community's internal divisions and difficulties in assessing its own interests limit its capacity to control events. Block insists that when business influence is greatest, as during the Reagan years, state policies will be least successful in solving the society's problems.