F C Da Silva
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 13342 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | F C Da Silva |
| NOMBRES | F C |
| APELLIDO | Da Silva |
| FIRMA | DA SILVA F C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Lisbon |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2459-0802 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 95 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The Outsider Within. Anticolonial Critiques of Humanity and the Cosmopolitan Vision
This article re-examines the anticolonial critique of the concept of 'humanity'. It uses the example of Leopold Senghor to show the extent to which this critique is shaped by their sociological marginality. Drawing on Georg Simmel's discussion of the 'stranger' and Patricia Hill Collins's discussion of the 'outsider within', the study rethinks the production of knowledge in racially structured societies. As 'outsiders within' colonial empires, an…
Amílcar Cabral, Colonial Soil and the Politics of Insubmission
This article discusses the concept of 'insubmission'. This concept is the cornerstone of Amílcar Cabral's critical theory. Introduced in his early agronomic writings, it refers to the human species' refusal to submit to the nature of which we are always a part. The context is the anticolonial critique of traditional European humanism. Insubmission is Cabral's response to the dehumanizing effects of colonialism and the environmental impact of anth…
Race and Populism. A Comparative Study of Thatcherism, Peronism and the American Populists
This article re-examines the race-populism nexus. It asks: Does populist political construction of the figure of "the people" necessarily involve processes of racial othering? We answer this question by revisiting three emblematic cases of populism. Each historical case illustrates a basic type of identity formation that can have an i) exclusionary, ii) ambivalent or iii) positive impact on racial justice. The first case is Thatcherism, whose "au…
Decolonising the Earth
The relationship between humanity and the soil is an increasingly important topic in social theory. However, conceptualisations of the soil developed by anticolonial thinkers at the high point of the movement for self-determination between the 1940s and the 1970s have remained largely ignored. This is a shame, not least because theorists like Eric Williams, Walter Rodney, Suzanne Césaire and Amílcar Cabral were concerned with the soil. Building o…
Can a colonial flag become a banner for democracy? The Case of the Dragon and Lion flag and the 2019 Hong Kong protests
Why did Hong Kong protestors choose a symbol of former oppression - the old colonial flag - as a banner for their fight for democracy, rights and autonomy in 2019? We propose to answer this puzzle by studying the colonial-era flag as a displacement device. The waving of the colonial-era flag is shown to induce non-linear temporal and extraterritorial displacements, as well as contradictory interpretations of Hong Kong's core values, national sove…
Politics with objects? On the affective materiality of contentious politics
How does material culture shape contentious politics? Things, we argue, influence political contention in ways that are reducible neither to struggles over meaning nor to the thingly aspect of things. The article combines pragmatic semiotics with insights on ritual practice and collective experience. By bringing together three often separate literatures - contentious politics, material culture, and affect - we suggest a thicker understanding of a…
Populist things. A study on the materiality of political ideas
Is there such thing as a populist thing? This article tries to answer this question by comparing two iconic populist objects: the Make America Great Again (MAGA) cap and the yellow vest. Despite their centrality to populist politics, there is remarkably little systematic examination of these objects' populist affordances, let alone a comparative study. We propose to address this lacuna by performing a pragmatic analysis of each object's role in t…
Populism and nationalism revisited
Current definitions of populism are insufficiently determinate. They fail to distinguish between populism and nationalism. We propose to remedy this problem by advancing a new definition of populism as the logic of democratic resentment. We apply this new definition to a comparison between Spain's Podemos and Portugal's Left Bloc (BE), which we classify as social carriers of populism. We make two contributions to the literature. First, our findin…
Fear of a Black planet
In recent years, images of climate catastrophe have become commonplace. However, Black visions of the confluence of the Anthropocene and the apocalypse have been largely ignored. As we argue in this article, Black social thought offers crucial resources for drawing out the implicit exclusions of dominant representations of climate breakdown and developing an alternative account of the planet's future. By reading a range of critical race theorists…
Tocqueville, Alexis de (1805–1859)
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) has been variously considered as historian, sociologist, and political theorist. His most well known work is Democracy in America (1835–1840), a classic study not only of democracy in America but of democracy itself. Sociologists have found in this analysis of the early years of the American Republic a seminal source of inspiration for the study of contemporary American society and politics. In the 1970s, interes…
The Politics of the Essay Lusotropicalism as Ideology and Theory
Rethinking the time's arrow
This article asks: What is, sociologically speaking, a beginning? And why has sociology so relatively little to say about beginnings, that point of discontinuity between past meaning and future meaning? We answer these questions in four successive steps. First, we suggest that the existing literature on beginnings can be organized in light of Lévi-Strauss' distinction between the irreversible time of social practices and the reversible time of an…
Books that Matter. The Case of Tocqueville's Democracy in America
This article addresses a puzzle in the history of academic disciplines: Why is Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, once considered a sociological classic, nowadays mostly praised as a classic in political philosophy? Existing approaches emphasize either aspects internal to the text or to the figure of the author, or external factors such as historical contexts and disciplinary dynamics. Our explanation questions the assumption that text…
The time of the human
Daniel Chernilo’s (2014, 340) invitation to the project of philosophical sociology is elo- quent and elegant: ‘the questions that matter to sociologists are always, in the last instance, also philosophical ones’. Chernilo invites to see the philosophical underpinnings of socio- logical questions and the sociological dimension of philosophical questions, without confl- ating the particularities of each discipline. His invitation is surely welcomed…
Populism as a logic of political action
This article offers a new understanding of populism. The argument unfolds as follows: first, the populist literature is reviewed and two main approaches are identified: ontic and logic-oriented, the more important of which is the Schmitt-Laclau logic of enmity. While the authors broadly agree with Laclau's criticism of ontic approaches, they endorse neither his ontological understanding of enmity, nor his claim that populism is politics, and enmi…
Populism and the politics of redemption
This article re-examines current definitions of populism, which portray it as either a powerful corrective to or the nemesis of liberal democracy. It does so by exploring a crucial but often neglected dimension of populism: its redemptive character. Populism is here understood to function according to the logic of resentment, which involves both socio-political indignation at injustice and envy or ressentiment. Populism promises redemption throug…
Waiting for Godot? Welfare Attitudes in Portugal before and after the Financial Crisis
Do attitudes towards the welfare state change in response to economic crises? Addressing this question is sometimes difficult because of the lack of longitudinal data. This article deals with this empirical challenge using survey data from the 2008 European Social Survey and from our own follow-up survey of Spring 2013 to track welfare attitudes at the brink and at the peak of the socio-economic crisis in one of the hardest hit countries: Portuga…
On the Pragmatics of Social Theory
This paper proposes a new approach to the study of sociological classics. This approach is pragmatic in character. It draws upon the social pragmatism of G. H. Mead and the sociology of texts of D. F. McKenzie. Our object of study is Norbert Elias's On the Process of Civilization. The pragmatic genealogy of this book reveals the importance of taking materiality seriously. By documenting the successive entanglements between human agency and nonhum…
Following the Book
This article offers an outline of a pragmatic sociology of the book. Whilst ubiquitous, books have received relatively little attention from sociologists. I propose to remedy this situation by drawing upon the ideas of GH Mead, namely his neo-Hegelian theory of the subject-object relationship. Mead's chief insight is that objects such as books are first social and only then physical entities. They have agency not because of their thing-ness, so t…
Max Weber and the Protestant Ethic
Sophie's Choice
This article examines social attitudes towards social rights in Portugal. It utilizes original survey data from 2013 to study the distribution of welfare attitudes in a context of economic austerity and welfare retrenchment. The main argument is that there are at least two sources of preference formation regarding public social provision: one is universalistic (or needs-based), and the other is contributory. These two logics frame choices concern…
Culture on the Rise
Democracia deliberativa hoje
Desde meados da década de 1990, o ideal deliberativo tem vindo a assumir um papel central na teoria democrática contemporânea. Mais recentemente, outra tendência tem vindo a registrar-se: a democracia deliberativa está a deixar de ser uma proposta puramente teórica e a tornar-se num modelo regulador de soluções institucionais concretas. É por essa razão que os principais problemas com que a democracia deliberativa se confronta hoje em dia são, po…
Outline of a social theory of rights
This article articulates a neo-pragmatist theory of human rights by drawing and expanding upon the American classical pragmatism of G.H. Mead. It characterizes this neo-pragmatist theory of rights by its anti-foundationalist, relational, fictive, and constitutive nature, and begins by providing a reconstruction of Mead's social pragmatist approach to rights, a contribution systematically ignored by contemporary sociologists of rights. Next, it de…
Anti-book. On the art and politics of radical publishing
Populism as a logic of political action
This article offers a new understanding of populism. The argument unfolds as follows: first, the populist literature is reviewed and two main approaches are identified: ontic and logic-oriented, the more important of which is the Schmitt-Laclau logic of enmity. While the authors broadly agree with Laclau's criticism of ontic approaches, they endorse neither his ontological understanding of enmity, nor his claim that populism is politics, and enmi…
Books and canon building in sociology
This paper discusses the canonization process of George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) in sociology through a recounting of the history of the book Mind, Self, and Society (1934). The relation between Mead and this particular work has no parallel in the history of sociological theory. Although the book was not written by Mead, or even organized under his direction, it has been through it that generations of academics and students have come in contact w…
Populism and the politics of redemption
This article re-examines current definitions of populism, which portray it as either a powerful corrective to or the nemesis of liberal democracy. It does so by exploring a crucial but often neglected dimension of populism: its redemptive character. Populism is here understood to function according to the logic of resentment, which involves both socio-political indignation at injustice and envy or ressentiment. Populism promises redemption throug…
Fear of a Black planet
In recent years, images of climate catastrophe have become commonplace. However, Black visions of the confluence of the Anthropocene and the apocalypse have been largely ignored. As we argue in this article, Black social thought offers crucial resources for drawing out the implicit exclusions of dominant representations of climate breakdown and developing an alternative account of the planet's future. By reading a range of critical race theorists…
Populism and nationalism revisited
Current definitions of populism are insufficiently determinate. They fail to distinguish between populism and nationalism. We propose to remedy this problem by advancing a new definition of populism as the logic of democratic resentment. We apply this new definition to a comparison between Spain's Podemos and Portugal's Left Bloc (BE), which we classify as social carriers of populism. We make two contributions to the literature. First, our findin…
G. H. Mead in the history of sociological ideas
My aim is to discuss the history of the reception of George Herbert Mead's ideas in sociology. After discussing the methodological debate between presentism and historicism, I address the interpretations of those responsible for Mead's inclusion in the sociological canon: Herbert Blumer, Jürgen Habermas, and Hans Joas. In the concluding section, I assess these reconstructions of Mead's thought and suggest an alternative more consistent with my in…
Anti-book. On the art and politics of radical publishing
Populist things. A study on the materiality of political ideas
Is there such thing as a populist thing? This article tries to answer this question by comparing two iconic populist objects: the Make America Great Again (MAGA) cap and the yellow vest. Despite their centrality to populist politics, there is remarkably little systematic examination of these objects' populist affordances, let alone a comparative study. We propose to address this lacuna by performing a pragmatic analysis of each object's role in t…
Democracia deliberativa hoje
Desde meados da década de 1990, o ideal deliberativo tem vindo a assumir um papel central na teoria democrática contemporânea. Mais recentemente, outra tendência tem vindo a registrar-se: a democracia deliberativa está a deixar de ser uma proposta puramente teórica e a tornar-se num modelo regulador de soluções institucionais concretas. É por essa razão que os principais problemas com que a democracia deliberativa se confronta hoje em dia são, po…
Waiting for Godot? Welfare Attitudes in Portugal before and after the Financial Crisis
Do attitudes towards the welfare state change in response to economic crises? Addressing this question is sometimes difficult because of the lack of longitudinal data. This article deals with this empirical challenge using survey data from the 2008 European Social Survey and from our own follow-up survey of Spring 2013 to track welfare attitudes at the brink and at the peak of the socio-economic crisis in one of the hardest hit countries: Portuga…
Culture on the Rise
Amílcar Cabral, Colonial Soil and the Politics of Insubmission
This article discusses the concept of 'insubmission'. This concept is the cornerstone of Amílcar Cabral's critical theory. Introduced in his early agronomic writings, it refers to the human species' refusal to submit to the nature of which we are always a part. The context is the anticolonial critique of traditional European humanism. Insubmission is Cabral's response to the dehumanizing effects of colonialism and the environmental impact of anth…
Politics with objects? On the affective materiality of contentious politics
How does material culture shape contentious politics? Things, we argue, influence political contention in ways that are reducible neither to struggles over meaning nor to the thingly aspect of things. The article combines pragmatic semiotics with insights on ritual practice and collective experience. By bringing together three often separate literatures - contentious politics, material culture, and affect - we suggest a thicker understanding of a…
The Politics of the Essay Lusotropicalism as Ideology and Theory
Pragmatism defended
G. H. Mead
This article offers an original, intellectual portrait of G. H. Mead. My reassessment of Mead’s thinking is founded, in methodological terms, upon a historically minded yet theoretically oriented strategy. Mead’s system of thought is submitted to a historical reconstruction in order to grasp the evolution of his ideas over time, and to a thematic reconstruction organized around three major research areas or pillars: science, social psychology and…
Decolonising the Earth
The relationship between humanity and the soil is an increasingly important topic in social theory. However, conceptualisations of the soil developed by anticolonial thinkers at the high point of the movement for self-determination between the 1940s and the 1970s have remained largely ignored. This is a shame, not least because theorists like Eric Williams, Walter Rodney, Suzanne Césaire and Amílcar Cabral were concerned with the soil. Building o…
The time of the human
Daniel Chernilo’s (2014, 340) invitation to the project of philosophical sociology is elo- quent and elegant: ‘the questions that matter to sociologists are always, in the last instance, also philosophical ones’. Chernilo invites to see the philosophical underpinnings of socio- logical questions and the sociological dimension of philosophical questions, without confl- ating the particularities of each discipline. His invitation is surely welcomed…
Following the Book
This article offers an outline of a pragmatic sociology of the book. Whilst ubiquitous, books have received relatively little attention from sociologists. I propose to remedy this situation by drawing upon the ideas of GH Mead, namely his neo-Hegelian theory of the subject-object relationship. Mead's chief insight is that objects such as books are first social and only then physical entities. They have agency not because of their thing-ness, so t…
Sophie's Choice
This article examines social attitudes towards social rights in Portugal. It utilizes original survey data from 2013 to study the distribution of welfare attitudes in a context of economic austerity and welfare retrenchment. The main argument is that there are at least two sources of preference formation regarding public social provision: one is universalistic (or needs-based), and the other is contributory. These two logics frame choices concern…
Outline of a social theory of rights
This article articulates a neo-pragmatist theory of human rights by drawing and expanding upon the American classical pragmatism of G.H. Mead. It characterizes this neo-pragmatist theory of rights by its anti-foundationalist, relational, fictive, and constitutive nature, and begins by providing a reconstruction of Mead's social pragmatist approach to rights, a contribution systematically ignored by contemporary sociologists of rights. Next, it de…
Pragmatism and the Social Sciences
The history of the influences and interactions between pragmatism and the social sciences is as rich as it has been neglected as a field of research. This volume – the first of a series of two – tries to explore both historically and theoretically some of these multiple relationships, building upon the assumption that pragmatism has been one of the philosophical traditions that have taken most seriously the study of the social. In fact, since its…
Bringing republican ideas back home. The Dewey–Laski connection
This article explores J.G.A. Pocock's insight that "traces" of civic republican discourse survived within the dominant liberal paradigm of modern political thought. It does so by tracking classical republican themes in the works of American pragmatist John Dewey and English pluralist Harold Laski. The main contribution of the article is to show that the 1920s pluralist theory of the state can be interpreted as a reformulation of the classical rep…
Re-examining Mead
Despite decades of scholarship on G.H. Mead (1863-1931), we are still far from an adequate estimate of the full scope of his contributions. In this article, I examine the standard caricature that portraits Mead as an essentially idealist thinker, without much to say on the 'material conditions of reproduction' of modern industrialized societies. Focusing on Habermas's version of this interpretation, I try to show that if 'science and democracy' i…
Habermas, Rorty e o pragmatismo americano
This article has two main objectives: 1) to compare how two of the most influential contemporary thinkers, Richard Rorty and Jürgen Habermas, relate to the legacy of American philosophical pragmatism and 2) to use this case to illustrate a meta-theoretical proposal of mine. The Rorty/Habermas comparison will allow me to present what I refer to as dialogical pluralism, that is, a theoretical and methodological perspective which, inspired by the Am…
Cidadãos da Europa? Algumas reflexões sobre o patriotismo constitucional1
Nas últimas décadas do século XX, o imaginário de uma globalização irresistível impôs-se de forma quase hegemónica. Proposto como uma necessidade histórica, este paradigma tem vindo a exercer uma influência notável. O projecto político de integração europeia, por exemplo, é frequentemente apresentado como a resposta necessária ao desafio da globalização e ao seu principal protagonista, os EUA. É neste quadro sócio-histórico que irei discutir aque…
G. H. Mead in the history of sociological ideas
My aim is to discuss the history of the reception of George Herbert Mead's ideas in sociology. After discussing the methodological debate between presentism and historicism, I address the interpretations of those responsible for Mead's inclusion in the sociological canon: Herbert Blumer, Jürgen Habermas, and Hans Joas. In the concluding section, I assess these reconstructions of Mead's thought and suggest an alternative more consistent with my in…
Habermas, Rorty e o pragmatismo americano
This article has two main objectives: 1) to compare how two of the most influential contemporary thinkers, Richard Rorty and Jürgen Habermas, relate to the legacy of American philosophical pragmatism and 2) to use this case to illustrate a meta-theoretical proposal of mine. The Rorty/Habermas comparison will allow me to present what I refer to as dialogical pluralism, that is, a theoretical and methodological perspective which, inspired by the Am…
G. H. Mead
This article offers an original, intellectual portrait of G. H. Mead. My reassessment of Mead’s thinking is founded, in methodological terms, upon a historically minded yet theoretically oriented strategy. Mead’s system of thought is submitted to a historical reconstruction in order to grasp the evolution of his ideas over time, and to a thematic reconstruction organized around three major research areas or pillars: science, social psychology and…
Re-examining Mead
Despite decades of scholarship on G.H. Mead (1863-1931), we are still far from an adequate estimate of the full scope of his contributions. In this article, I examine the standard caricature that portraits Mead as an essentially idealist thinker, without much to say on the 'material conditions of reproduction' of modern industrialized societies. Focusing on Habermas's version of this interpretation, I try to show that if 'science and democracy' i…
Plural Modernity
The article begins with the assumption that modernity is undergoing a profound change. The focus is on the structural transformation of two typical modern institutional regimes: the academic discipline and the territorial nation-state. Their demise as the predominant institutional forms in the realms of science and politics signals the end of the modern project—or at least the need for its profound redefinition. It is suggested that such a redefi…
Bringing republican ideas back home. The Dewey–Laski connection
This article explores J.G.A. Pocock's insight that "traces" of civic republican discourse survived within the dominant liberal paradigm of modern political thought. It does so by tracking classical republican themes in the works of American pragmatist John Dewey and English pluralist Harold Laski. The main contribution of the article is to show that the 1920s pluralist theory of the state can be interpreted as a reformulation of the classical rep…
Pragmatism and the Social Sciences
The history of the influences and interactions between pragmatism and the social sciences is as rich as it has been neglected as a field of research. This volume – the first of a series of two – tries to explore both historically and theoretically some of these multiple relationships, building upon the assumption that pragmatism has been one of the philosophical traditions that have taken most seriously the study of the social. In fact, since its…
Books and canon building in sociology
This paper discusses the canonization process of George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) in sociology through a recounting of the history of the book Mind, Self, and Society (1934). The relation between Mead and this particular work has no parallel in the history of sociological theory. Although the book was not written by Mead, or even organized under his direction, it has been through it that generations of academics and students have come in contact w…
Pragmatism defended
Culture on the Rise
Democracia deliberativa hoje
Desde meados da década de 1990, o ideal deliberativo tem vindo a assumir um papel central na teoria democrática contemporânea. Mais recentemente, outra tendência tem vindo a registrar-se: a democracia deliberativa está a deixar de ser uma proposta puramente teórica e a tornar-se num modelo regulador de soluções institucionais concretas. É por essa razão que os principais problemas com que a democracia deliberativa se confronta hoje em dia são, po…
Outline of a social theory of rights
This article articulates a neo-pragmatist theory of human rights by drawing and expanding upon the American classical pragmatism of G.H. Mead. It characterizes this neo-pragmatist theory of rights by its anti-foundationalist, relational, fictive, and constitutive nature, and begins by providing a reconstruction of Mead's social pragmatist approach to rights, a contribution systematically ignored by contemporary sociologists of rights. Next, it de…
Max Weber and the Protestant Ethic
Sophie's Choice
This article examines social attitudes towards social rights in Portugal. It utilizes original survey data from 2013 to study the distribution of welfare attitudes in a context of economic austerity and welfare retrenchment. The main argument is that there are at least two sources of preference formation regarding public social provision: one is universalistic (or needs-based), and the other is contributory. These two logics frame choices concern…
On the Pragmatics of Social Theory
This paper proposes a new approach to the study of sociological classics. This approach is pragmatic in character. It draws upon the social pragmatism of G. H. Mead and the sociology of texts of D. F. McKenzie. Our object of study is Norbert Elias's On the Process of Civilization. The pragmatic genealogy of this book reveals the importance of taking materiality seriously. By documenting the successive entanglements between human agency and nonhum…
Following the Book
This article offers an outline of a pragmatic sociology of the book. Whilst ubiquitous, books have received relatively little attention from sociologists. I propose to remedy this situation by drawing upon the ideas of GH Mead, namely his neo-Hegelian theory of the subject-object relationship. Mead's chief insight is that objects such as books are first social and only then physical entities. They have agency not because of their thing-ness, so t…
Waiting for Godot? Welfare Attitudes in Portugal before and after the Financial Crisis
Do attitudes towards the welfare state change in response to economic crises? Addressing this question is sometimes difficult because of the lack of longitudinal data. This article deals with this empirical challenge using survey data from the 2008 European Social Survey and from our own follow-up survey of Spring 2013 to track welfare attitudes at the brink and at the peak of the socio-economic crisis in one of the hardest hit countries: Portuga…
Populism and the politics of redemption
This article re-examines current definitions of populism, which portray it as either a powerful corrective to or the nemesis of liberal democracy. It does so by exploring a crucial but often neglected dimension of populism: its redemptive character. Populism is here understood to function according to the logic of resentment, which involves both socio-political indignation at injustice and envy or ressentiment. Populism promises redemption throug…
The time of the human
Daniel Chernilo’s (2014, 340) invitation to the project of philosophical sociology is elo- quent and elegant: ‘the questions that matter to sociologists are always, in the last instance, also philosophical ones’. Chernilo invites to see the philosophical underpinnings of socio- logical questions and the sociological dimension of philosophical questions, without confl- ating the particularities of each discipline. His invitation is surely welcomed…
Populism as a logic of political action
This article offers a new understanding of populism. The argument unfolds as follows: first, the populist literature is reviewed and two main approaches are identified: ontic and logic-oriented, the more important of which is the Schmitt-Laclau logic of enmity. While the authors broadly agree with Laclau's criticism of ontic approaches, they endorse neither his ontological understanding of enmity, nor his claim that populism is politics, and enmi…
Tocqueville, Alexis de (1805–1859)
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) has been variously considered as historian, sociologist, and political theorist. His most well known work is Democracy in America (1835–1840), a classic study not only of democracy in America but of democracy itself. Sociologists have found in this analysis of the early years of the American Republic a seminal source of inspiration for the study of contemporary American society and politics. In the 1970s, interes…
The Politics of the Essay Lusotropicalism as Ideology and Theory
Rethinking the time's arrow
This article asks: What is, sociologically speaking, a beginning? And why has sociology so relatively little to say about beginnings, that point of discontinuity between past meaning and future meaning? We answer these questions in four successive steps. First, we suggest that the existing literature on beginnings can be organized in light of Lévi-Strauss' distinction between the irreversible time of social practices and the reversible time of an…
Books that Matter. The Case of Tocqueville's Democracy in America
This article addresses a puzzle in the history of academic disciplines: Why is Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, once considered a sociological classic, nowadays mostly praised as a classic in political philosophy? Existing approaches emphasize either aspects internal to the text or to the figure of the author, or external factors such as historical contexts and disciplinary dynamics. Our explanation questions the assumption that text…
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