Daniel Chernilo

Natural Law Foundations of Modern Social Theory (eBook, ePUB)

A Quest for Universalism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

After several decades in which it became a prime target for critique, universalism remains one of the most important issues in social and political thought. Daniel Chernilo reassesses social theory's universalistic orientation and explains its origins in natural law theory, using an impressive array of classical and contemporary sources that include, among others, Habermas, Leo Strauss, Weber, Marx, Hegel, Rousseau and Hobbes. The Natural Law Foundations of Modern Social Theory challenges previous accounts of the rise of social theory, recovers a strong idea of humanity, and revisits conventional arguments on sociology's relationship to modernity, the enlightenment and natural law. It reconnects social theory to its scientific and philosophical roots, its descriptive and normative tasks and its historical and systematic planes. Chernilo's defense of universalism for contemporary social theory will surely engage students of sociology, political theory and moral philosophy alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139610162
• Artikelnr.: 52833745

Autorenporträt

Daniel Chernilo (BA, University of Chile; PhD, University of Warwick) is Reader in Social and Political Thought at Loughborough University. He has written widely on nationalism, cosmopolitanism and the problem of universalism in classical and contemporary social thought. He is the author of A Social Theory of the Nation-State (2007) and, in Spanish, of Nacionalismo y Cosmopolitismo (2010) and La Pretensión Universalista de la Teoría Social (2011). He has given over fifty invited seminars and lectures in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the Czech Republic, Germany, Singapore and the UK. He is also a member of the international advisory boards of the British Journal of Sociology, the European Journal of Social Theory and Revista de Sociología.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Part I. On the Relationships between Social Theory and
Natural Law: 1. Contemporary social theory and natural law: Jürgen
Habermas; 2. A natural law critique of modern social theory: Karl Löwith,
Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin; Part II. Natural Law: 3. Natural law and the
question of universalism; 4. Modern natural law I: Hobbes and Rousseau on
the state of nature and social life; 5. Modern natural law II: Kant and
Hegel on proceduralism and ethical life; Part III. Classical Social Theory:
6. Classical social theory I: Marx, Tönnies and Durkheim on alienation,
community and society; 7. Classical social theory II: Simmel and Weber on
the universality of sociability and reasonableness; 8. Social theory as the
natural law of 'artificial' social relations; Epilogue.