Lecture 2: Themes and Issues in the Politics and Society of the Long 19 th Century Foundations of...

Lecture 2:

Themes and Issues in the Politics and Society of the Long 19th Century

Foundations of Modern Social and Political Thought

The Long 19th Century

Framed by revolution: from 1789 to 1917 An age of development: politics, economy

and society An era of ideology Making sense of debate

Structures of analysis

What is the unit of analysis? Authors Traditions, Themes and Issues Conceptual Arguments

Social class and the industrial order

Industrialisation Understanding the new social order Understanding the political response Mass politics and revolution A Marxist teleology

Democratisation: enfranchisement, and reform

Institutional reform: where and how? The republican heritage Identifying political cultures, orders and

traditions A reformist teleology

Democratisation and mass politics

The working class and political power The mediocrity of mass political life The rise of the state Nihilism, social psychology and the

inevitability of conflict

The science of society: expertise and state development

The new science of society A social basis in the middle class The construction of the modern state:

bureaucracy, expertise and the iron cage

The new nation: nationalism, patriotism and the new Europe

Republican war on the continent Imperialism and its discontents Exile, trade and information: a global age Empire made me?

Stories of Continuity

The Enlightenment and After Anti-Enlightenment: Localism,

Regionalism and Tradition Anti-Enlightenment: Religious Dissent

Conceptual Debates: Democracy

From ridicule to reality Participatory and representative stories Social consequences and economic

patterns

Conceptual Debates: Liberty

Individual development in the era of mass politics

Protection and the state: the inheritance of rights The protean concept: towards idealism Meanings and mechanisms: structures of

governance

Conceptual Debates: State and Society

The social order as determining the political order

The political order as determining the social order

The irrelevance of politics to society, or society to politics

Lectures

Liberty and Democracy: Tocqueville, Bentham, Mill

Civil Society and the State: Weber and Durkheim