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Lecture 2:
Themes and Issues in the Politics and Society of the Long 19th Century
Foundations of Modern Social and Political Thought
The Long 19th Century
Framed by revolution: from 1789 to 1917 An age of development: politics, economy
and society An era of ideology Making sense of debate
Structures of analysis
What is the unit of analysis? Authors Traditions, Themes and Issues Conceptual Arguments
Social class and the industrial order
Industrialisation Understanding the new social order Understanding the political response Mass politics and revolution A Marxist teleology
Democratisation: enfranchisement, and reform
Institutional reform: where and how? The republican heritage Identifying political cultures, orders and
traditions A reformist teleology
Democratisation and mass politics
The working class and political power The mediocrity of mass political life The rise of the state Nihilism, social psychology and the
inevitability of conflict
The science of society: expertise and state development
The new science of society A social basis in the middle class The construction of the modern state:
bureaucracy, expertise and the iron cage
The new nation: nationalism, patriotism and the new Europe
Republican war on the continent Imperialism and its discontents Exile, trade and information: a global age Empire made me?
Stories of Continuity
The Enlightenment and After Anti-Enlightenment: Localism,
Regionalism and Tradition Anti-Enlightenment: Religious Dissent
Conceptual Debates: Democracy
From ridicule to reality Participatory and representative stories Social consequences and economic
patterns
Conceptual Debates: Liberty
Individual development in the era of mass politics
Protection and the state: the inheritance of rights The protean concept: towards idealism Meanings and mechanisms: structures of
governance
Conceptual Debates: State and Society
The social order as determining the political order
The political order as determining the social order
The irrelevance of politics to society, or society to politics
Lectures
Liberty and Democracy: Tocqueville, Bentham, Mill
Civil Society and the State: Weber and Durkheim
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