Impersonal Power : History and Theory of the Bourgeois State
, by Gerstenberger, Heide- ISBN: 9781608460298 | 1608460290
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/1/2009
The point of departure of Heide Gerstenberger's pathbreaking work is a critique of the structural-functionalist theory of the state, in both its modernisation theory and materialist variants. Gerstenberger opposes to these a historical-theoretical explanation that proceeds from the long-term structuring effect of concrete social practice