EBOOK Before the State:Systemic Political Change in the West from the Greeks to the French -

EBOOK Before the State:Systemic Political Change in the West from the Greeks to the French
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191606908
EAN: DB9C8AF0EB
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Stron: 588
Data wydania: 2007
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The idea that society, or civilisation, is predicated on the "e;state"e; is a        projection of present-day political ideology into the past. Nothing akin to what we        call the "e;state"e; existed before the 19th century: it is a recent invention and the        assumption that it is timeless, necessary for society, is simply part of its        legitimating myth. The development, over the past three millennia, of the political        structures of western civilisation is shown here to have been a succession        ofindividual, unrepeatable stages: what links them is not that every period        re-enacts the "e;state"e; in a different guise - that is, re-enacts the same basic        pattern - but that one period-specific pattern evolves into the next in a        path-dependent process. Treating western civilisation as a single politicalsystem,        the book charts systemic structural change from the origins of western civilisation        in the pre-christian Greek world to about 1800, when the onset of industrialisation        began to create the conditions in which the state as we know it could function. It        explains structural change in terms of both the political ideas of each period and        in terms of the material constraints and opportunities (e.g. ecological and        technological factors) that impacted on those ideas and which constitute a        majorcause of change. However, although material factors are important, ultimately        it is the ideas that count - and indeed the words with which they were communicated        when they were current: since political structures only exist in peoples heads, to        understand past political structures it is imperativeto deal with them literally on        their own terms, to take those terms seriously. Relabelling or redefining political        units (for example by calling them "e;states"e; or equating them with "e;states"e;) when        those who lived (in) them thought of them as something else entirely imposes a false        uniformity on the past. The dead will not object because they cannot: this book        tries to make their voices heard again, through the texts that they left but whose        political terminology, and often whose finer points,are commonly ignored in an        unconscious effort to make the past fit our standard state-centric political        paradigm.

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