The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State

ISBN-13: 9781108745970 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 222 str.

Steven Klein

Opis

This theoretically innovative book shows how democratic social movements can use the welfare state to challenge domination in society.

Recenzje

'… The Work of Politics should be required reading for anyone interested in welfare politics from either a practical or theoretical perspective.' Thimo Heisenberg, Political Science Quarterly

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Domination and the welfare state: direct, structural, and abstract; 2. From calculation to domination: Max Weber on democracy and the welfare state; 3. From value to world: Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, and the politics of world-making; 4. From world to emancipation: Jürgen Habermas, domination, and the welfare state revisited; Conclusion. Democratic theory and the future of the welfare state.