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The Modern State Subverted: Risk and the Deconstruction of Solidarity

The Modern State Subverted: Risk and the Deconstruction of Solidarity

Palma, Giuseppe Di

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Series: Ecpr Press Essays

General Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1907301631
ISBN13: 9781907301636
Publisher: ECPR Press
Published: Nov 1 2013
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Until recently, liberalism was, according to Karl Polanyi, embedded within civil society, working closely with a democratic state intent on addressing, in solidarity, the social risks associated with modern capitalism. Modern relations between society and the state have been, at best, ones of shared language and goals rather than necessary conflict. Already under the polizeistaat, absolutist rulers took, in their own way, the care of their population as central to their rule. The welfare state was only the most innovative embodiment of such collective concerns. Today's neoliberalism is, to the contrary, a subversion of liberal embeddedness. It is the utopia of market fundamentalism intent, by the power of its perversity narrative of the past, on replacing socially embedded market and government with a dispiriting, socially isolating Malthusian project.

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