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Die in diesem Band versammelten Analysen, lassen sich keiner der staatstheoretischen Strömungen zuordnen, die während der letzten Jahrzehnte prominent geworden sind. Die Entwicklung ihrer eigenen theoretischen Konzeption von Staatsgewalt hat die Verfasserin in einer ausführlichen Einleitung dokumentiert und kommentiert.Der zeitliche Rahmen der ausgewählten Texte reicht vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart und das Spektrum der Themen von der politischen Ökonomie des "Amerikanischen Traums" bis zur theoretischen Konzeption einer Trennung von Politik und Ökonomie. Was die im engeren...

Despite their many disagreements when it comes to the subject of capitalism, Marxist and market-liberal approaches seem to agree about one thing: the economic structures of capitalist market society have made direct violence against the person not only superfluous, but economically counterproductive. Heide Gerstenberger's Market and Violence does not contest the thesis that there has been, in many places, a decline in the use of violence in the pursuit of profit; but it demolishes the assumption that this can be put down to the evolution of economic rationality. By means of a deep engagement...

The point of departure of Heide Gerstenberger's path-breaking work is a critique of structural-functionalist theory of the state, in both its modernisation theory and materialist variants. Prof. Gerstenberger opposes to these a historical-theoretical explanation that proceeds from the long-term structuring effect of concrete social practice. This is elucidated by detailed investigation of the development of bourgeois state power in the two key examples of England and France. The different complexions that the bourgeois state assumed are presented as the results of processes of social and...

The point of departure of Heide Gerstenberger's path-breaking work is a critique of structural-functionalist theory of the state, in both its modernisation theory and materialist variants. Prof. Gerstenberger opposes to these a historical-theoretical explanation that proceeds from the long-term structuring effect of concrete social practice. This is elucidated by detailed investigation of the development of bourgeois state power in the two key examples of England and France. The different complexions that the bourgeois state assumed are presented as the results of processes of social...