Scattered thoughts on the State: only historical memory or still living reality?
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Abstract
Because of primal interest for long-range historical phenomena of orientation and transformation of collective behaviours in political life, I have developed a lasting preference for a research in constitutional history of German type (Verfassungsgeschichte), in order to understand the historical model of an European «modern» State, essentially centred around public administration. From the accomplishment of the State in absolutism to its democratic «degeneracy» in the 19th century (through rule of law, social state, totalitarism…) what is still alive of the old historical category of «State»? Only a memory? Or perhaps also a bit of melancholy?
Keywords
- History of political thought and institutions
- Constitutional history
- The more or less «modern» State
- And now?
