The Problem of the State

ISBN-13: 9781138613836 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 178 str.

Michael Mair

Opis

The Problem of the State provides a new perspective on what the social and political sciences can contribute to understandings of the state and the ambivalent place it occupies in our collective affairs, distinguishing empirical and theoretical approaches before advocating a return to the problem in social and political practice.

Spis treści

1. The Problem of the State in the Social and Political Sciences  2. The Matter Thereof and the Artificer – Hobbes, Weber and the Constitutionalist Approach  3. The Government of Men and Things – Foucault’s Radical Critique of Constitutionalism  4. Problematising the State – Historical and Ethnographic Studies of State Practices  5. The Limits of Problematisation – Historical Studies and the Divorce of Discourse from Practice  6. Fictions of Practice – Anthropological Accounts and the Fabrication of the Real  7. The Problem of the State Beyond Constitution and Construction  8. What We Talk About When We Talk About the State

O autorze

Michael Mair is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Liverpool, UK.