Beschreibung:
Examines the connection between theories of the State and approaches to knowledge construction. It focuses on neo-pluralist, neo-liberalist and neo-Marxist thought, analysing the work of Hayek and others.
Introduction 1. Situating the state: metatheorizing and critical exegesis 2. Empiricism, idealism, realism 3. Polyarchic civility and the state 4. The horizon of catallactic possibilities 5. Capitalism, the state and societalization 6. Metatheorizing the state: preliminary conclusions