Political Modernity and Social Theory

An in-depth investigation of political modernity, Political Modernity and Social Theory proposes an encompassing and far-reaching approach spanning past and present - stressing radical plebeian democracy and maintaining a strong opening to the future and to possible alternatives to modernity.

José Maurício Domingues is Professor of Social and Political Sciences at the State of Rio de Janeiro University in Brazil. He is the recipient of the Anneliese Maier Forschungspreis from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung and the author of numerous books in English, Spanish, and Portuguese, including Authoritarian Collectivism and 'Real Socialism' (2021), Emancipation and History: The Return of Social Theory (2018) and Latin American and Contemporary Modernity: A Sociological Interpretation (Routledge, 2008).