The Political Forms of Modern Society: Bureaucracy, Democracy, Totalitarianism

by Claude Lefort

Book Overview

Claude Lefort is one of the leading social and political theorists in France today. This anthology of his most important work published over the last four decades makes his writing widely accessible to an English-speaking audience for the first time. With exceptional skill Lefort combines the analysis of contemporary political events with a sensitivity to the history of political thought. His critical account of the development of bureaucracy and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262121174
• ISBN13: 9780262121170
• Release Date: August 1986
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.