Claus Offe and the Critical Theory of the Capitalist State

by Stephan Lessenich and Jens Borchert

Back in 1972, German political sociologist Claus Offe published a book on the Structural Problems of Late Capitalism which, for almost two decades, inspired and stimulated an international and transdisciplinary debate on the role of the state in contemporary capitalism. An academic debate which, paradoxically, began to wane as the issues about which Offe had been writing became even more prominent: the "Contradictions of the Welfare State" (the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138599670
• ISBN13: 9781138599673
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages