Research Catalog

Title

Archaeology of the origin of the state : the theories / Vicente Lull and Rafael Micó ; translated by Peter Smith.

Author

Lull, Vicente.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

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Additional Authors

Micó Pérez, Rafael.

Description

xvi, 290 p.; 23 cm.

Uniform Title

Arqueología del origen del Estado. English

Alternative Title

Arqueología del origen del Estado.

Subject

• State, The > Origin
• Political science > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Originally published as: Arqueología del origen del Estado : las teorías. Barcelona : Bellaterra, 2007.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-281) and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Spanish.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

PART I Theories About The State -- 1 The Classical Conception 3 -- Plato (428-347 bc) 3 -- Social classes in Plato's Republic 5 -- Forms of government 9 -- Conclusion 10 -- Aristotle (384-322 bc) 12 -- Forms of government 15 -- Conclusions 16 -- Differences and similarities within the classical conception 17 -- 2 The State according to Christianity 24 -- Precedents of Christian political thought 25 -- St Thomas of Aquinas (1225-74) 28 -- Conclusions 33 -- 3 The Renaissance of the State 36 -- Machiavelli (1469-1527) 36 -- Conclusions 41 -- 4 The Seventeenth Century. Fear and Property 44 -- Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): the reasonable wolf 45 -- Individual and society 49 -- Conclusion 52 -- John Locke (1632-1704): the instigator of 'human rights' 53 -- Conclusion 59 -- 5 The Eighteenth Century: Lights and Shadows in the State 65 -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) 67 -- Rousseau and political participation 78 -- Conclusion 81 -- 6 The Absolute State 86 -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) 86 -- Hegelian philosophy and his triads 87 -- The elements of the philosophy of right 89 -- The State 98 -- Conclusion: problems with the Hegelian State 102 -- 7 The Critique of the State in Marx 108 -- From idealist humanism to historical materialism 109 -- The historical conditions of the State: The German Ideology 114 -- The historical conditions of the State: The Formen 117 -- Forms of property and State 121 -- The future of the State 124 -- Marxist tradition and the State 127 -- 8 Evolutionism and State 135 -- Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-81) 137 -- Savagery 140 -- Barbarism 141 -- Civilization 142 -- The meanings of evolutionary periodization 143 -- Neo-evolutionism 148 -- Elman R. Service (1915-96) 151 -- Bands 151 -- Tribes 151 -- Chiefdom 152 -- Primitive States and archaic civilizations 152 -- Egalitarian or segmental societies 153 -- Chiefdom societies 154 -- Archaic civilization and State 155 -- Morton H. Fried (1923-86) 157 -- The egalitarian society 157 -- Hierarchized or rank societies 158 -- Stratified societies 159 -- The State 160 -- Neo-evolutionism: discussion and assessment 161 -- Conclusion 168 -- PART II Archaeology of The State -- 9 Archaeology and Research on the State 175 -- Definition of the object of study 176 -- The impact of V. G. Childe (1892-1957) 180 -- Processual archaeology and research on the formation of the State 189 -- Complexity 194 -- Evolution, typologies, and surveys 197 -- Empirical regularity and explanation 203 -- The explanation of change: the reasons for the rise of civilizations 207 -- Critical remarks 212 -- Archaeology of the State in post-modern times 215 -- 10 Towards a Marxist Archaeology of the State 227 -- Notes for archaeological research on the State: theory 230 -- The production of social life 231 -- Division of tasks and the social division of production 232 -- General production and the 'place' of politics 234 -- The formation of the State 237 -- The politics of State 241 -- The state-of-the-world 244 -- Notes for archaeological research on the State: method 246 -- 11 Epilogue. Theories on the State and the Archaeology of the State: Continuities and Complicity 255 -- Individual and... society? 255 -- Social relationships 259 -- Morality, identity, and State 262 -- Modem archaeology and State 268.

ISBN

• 9780199557844
• 0199557845

LCCN

^^2011929250

OCLC

694395524

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library