Hirst, Paul Quentin

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HIRST, Paul Quentin

HIRST, Paul Quentin. British, b. 1946. Genres: Politics/Government, Sociology. Career: Birkbeck College, University of London, Lecturer in Sociology, 1969-78, Reader in Social Theory, 1978-86, Professor of Social Theory, 1986-; London Consortium Graduate Programme, Academic Director, 1995. Publications: Durkheim, Bernard and Epistemology, 1975; (with B. Hindess) Pre-Capitalist Modes of Production, 1975; Social Evolution and Sociological Categories, 1976; (with B. Hindess) Mode of Production and Social Formations, 1977; (with others) Marx's Capital and Capitalism Today, 2 vols., 1977-78; (with P. Woolley) Social Relations and Human Attributes, 1982; Marxism and Historical Writing, 1985; Law, Socialism, and Democracy, 1986; After Thatcher, 1989; The Pluralist Theory of the State, 1989; Representative Democracy and Its Limits, 1990; Associative Democracy, 1994; (with G. Thompson) Globalisation in Question, 1996, 2nd ed., 1999; From Statism to Pluralism, 1997; War and Power in the 21st Century, 2001. Died 2003.