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100			_aMaccarini, Andrea M. _950604
245			_aBarbarism and modernity in S.N. Eisenstadt’s theory: Towards a cultural sociology of radicalism
260			_aInternational Sociology
300			_a39(6), Nov, 2024: p.631-649
520			_aThe emergence of ‘radical’ social and political actors, ideologies and identities seems to be a hallmark of the crisis of liberal democracy that is spreading throughout global society. Despite its growing uneasiness about these facts, social science has not produced much theoretical innovation about them. This article aims to contribute to this task, by bringing to bear a conceptual framework elaborated by Shmuel N. Eisenstadt through his reflections on modern barbarism. I argue that the author’s understanding of barbarism has a significant interpretive potential for the sociological analysis of contemporary radical identities, and suggest some ways to reconsider ‘populism’, thereby redefining the very concept of radicalism. The article starts by introducing the pivotal notions which constitute the conceptual framework of our author. The following section outlines the main argument of Eisenstadt’s theory of barbarism, unpacking the way in which those concepts interweave to conjure a cultural theory of exclusionary, violent identities and institutional regimes. The final section highlights the significance of such approach for a cultural sociology of radicalism, by exploring the relations between the author’s views and some selected trends in contemporary social theory.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/02685809241287172
650			_aBarbarism, Eisenstaedt, Modernity, Sociology of culture. _950605
773			_aInternational Sociology
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