Historical Materialism

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Impersonal Power: History And Theory Of The Bourgeois State

by Heide Gerstenberger

Published 15 October 2009

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.