The state is central to social scientific and historical inquiry today, reflecting its importance in domestic and international affairs. States kill, coerce, fight, torture, and incarcerate, yet they also nurture, protect, educate, redistribute, and invest. It is precisely because of the complexity and wide-ranging impacts of states that research on them has proliferated and di...(展开全部)

The state is central to social scientific and historical inquiry today, reflecting its importance in domestic and international affairs. States kill, coerce, fight, torture, and incarcerate, yet they also nurture, protect, educate, redistribute, and invest. It is precisely because of the complexity and wide-ranging impacts of states that research on them has proliferated and di...(展开全部)

Arguing that only the consent of the governed can justify authority, this monograph investigates the nature of authority and the character of the state, evaluates the modern state's claim to authority over its citizens, and assesses the theories of conventionalism, contractarianism, and communitarianism.

This study brings Africa into the mainstream of studies of state-formation in agrarian societies. Territorial integration is the challenge: institutional linkages and political deals that bind center and periphery are the solutions. In African countries, as in territorially diverse states around the world, rulers at the center are forced to bargain with regional elites to estab...(展开全部)

This study brings Africa into the mainstream of studies of state-formation in agrarian societies. Territorial integration is the challenge: institutional linkages and political deals that bind center and periphery are the solutions. In African countries, as in territorially diverse states around the world, rulers at the center are forced to bargain with regional elites to estab...(展开全部)

"The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat[e] the potential of the perspective of the affects in a wide range of fields and with a variety of methodological approaches. Some of the essays . . . use fieldwork to investigate the functions of affects--among organized sex workers, health care workers, and in the modeling industry. Others employ the discourses of microbi...(展开全部)

"The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat[e] the potential of the perspective of the affects in a wide range of fields and with a variety of methodological approaches. Some of the essays . . . use fieldwork to investigate the functions of affects--among organized sex workers, health care workers, and in the modeling industry. Others employ the discourses of microbi...(展开全部)

理查德·J.伯恩斯坦（1932— ） 1958年获得耶鲁大学博士学位，然后留校任教。现为美国纽约社会研究新学院哲学系讲座教授。伯恩斯坦主要研究实用主义、社会政治哲学、批判理论等。著有《实践与行动》（1971）、《超越客观主义和相对主义》（1983）、《汉娜·阿伦特与犹太问题》（1996）等等。伯恩斯坦是美国实用主义和哈贝马斯思想的重量级研究者和诠释者，后实证主义和后经验主义的主要旗手之一，也是批判理论的倡导者。

理查德·J.伯恩斯坦（1932— ） 1958年获得耶鲁大学博士学位，然后留校任教。现为美国纽约社会研究新学院哲学系讲座教授。伯恩斯坦主要研究实用主义、社会政治哲学、批判理论等。著有《实践与行动》（1971）、《超越客观主义和相对主义》（1983）、《汉娜·阿伦特与犹太问题》（1996）等等。伯恩斯坦是美国实用主义和哈贝马斯思想的重量级研究者和诠释者，后实证主义和后经验主义的主要旗手之一，也是批判理论的倡导者。

In this volume, Bernstein forsees and outlines the development of a social theory that is at once empirical, interpretive, and critical.