{"product_id":"on-the-state-lectures-at-the-college-de-france-1989-1992-paperback-softback-9780745663302","title":"On the State; Lectures at the Collège de France, 1989 - 1992 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780745663302","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOn the State\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLectures at the Collège de France, 1989 - 1992\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePierre Bourdieu (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745663302, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 January 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e480 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.8 cm, 0.68 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“This is a major book for the social sciences. Unlike the majority of books on the state, it actually provides a basis for future empirical work on how states operate. Of the three kinds of books that have relevance for the academic reader—books to skim, books to read, and books to study—it is emphatically a book to study. One that is bold, profound and enlightening.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEuropean Journal of Sociology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This enormous collection of lecture notes could make you feel lost in different countries and different historical periods, but it is successful in sounding very coherent with a very fluent narrative, and it is not distracting for the reader. These lectures certainly present an illuminating and broad content that any social scientist - not necessarily political scientists - should benefit from when reading this book.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePolitical Studies Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Bourdieu’s insights break fresh ground in the critical understanding of the state and its perpetration of power.This book impels us to consider the state in its all nuances, while unworking the constructivism immanent in its normativization, and should be of interest to social and political scientists.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAvishek Ray, Rouya Turkiyyah\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhat is the nature of the modern state? How did it come into being and what are the characteristics of this distinctive field of power that has come to play such a central role in the shaping of all spheres of social, political and economic life? \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this major work the great sociologist Pierre Bourdieu addresses these fundamental questions. Modifying Max Weber’s famous definition, Bourdieu defines the state in terms of the monopoly of legitimate physical and symbolic violence, where the monopoly of symbolic violence is the condition for the possession and exercise of physical violence. The state can be reduced neither to an apparatus of power in the service of dominant groups nor to a neutral site where conflicting interests are played out: rather, it constitutes the form of collective belief that structures the whole of social life. The ‘collective fiction’ of the state Ð a fiction with very real effects - is at the same time the product of all struggles between different interests, what is at stake in these struggles, and their very foundation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e While the question of the state runs through the whole of Bourdieu’s work, it was never the subject of a book designed to offer a unified theory. The lecture course presented here, to which Bourdieu devoted three years of his teaching at the Collège de France, fills this gap and provides the key that brings together the whole of his research in this field. This text also shows ‘another Bourdieu’, both more concrete and more pedagogic in that he presents his thinking in the process of its development. While revealing the illusions of ‘state thought’ designed to maintain belief in government being oriented in principle to the common good, he shows himself equally critical of an ‘anti-institutional mood’ that is all too ready to reduce the construction of the bureaucratic apparatus to the function of maintaining social order.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e At a time when financial crisis is facilitating the hasty dismantling of public services, with little regard for any notion of popular sovereignty, this book offers the critical instruments needed for a more lucid understanding of the wellsprings of domination.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eYEAR 1989–1990 \u003cp\u003eLecture of 18 January 1990\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn unthinkable object\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe state as a neutral site\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Marxist tradition\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe calendar and the structure of temporality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eState categories\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActs of state\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe private-home market and the state\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Barre commission on housing\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture of 25 January 1990\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe theoretical and the empirical\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eState commissions and stagings\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe social construction of public problems\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe state as viewpoint on viewpoints\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOfficial marriage\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheory and theory effects\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe two meanings of the word ‘state’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransforming the particular into the universal\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe obsequium\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInstitutions as ‘organized fiduciary’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGenesis of the state. Difficulties of the undertaking\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eParenthesis on the teaching of research in sociology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe state and the sociologist\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture of 1 February 1990\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe rhetoric of the official\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe public and the official\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe universal other and censorship\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ‘legislator as artist’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe genesis of public discourse\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublic discourse and the imposition of form\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublic opinion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture of 8 February 1990\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe concentration of symbolic resources\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSociological reading of Franz Kafka\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn untenable research programme\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistory and sociology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShmuel Eisenstadt’s The Political Systems of Empires\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePerry Anderson’s two books\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe problem of the three routes according to Barrington Moore\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture of 15 February 1990\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe official and the private\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSociology and history: genetic structuralism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGenetic history of the state\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGame and field\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnachronism and the illusion of the nominal\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe two faces of the state\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYEAR 1990–1991\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture of 10 January 1991\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistorical approach and genetic approach\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResearch strategy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHousing policy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInteractions and structural relations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelf-evidence as an effect of institutionalization\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe effect of ‘that’s the way it is …’ and the closing of possibilities\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe space of possibilities\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe example of spelling\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture of 17 January 1991\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReminder of the course’s approach\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe two meanings of the word ‘state’: state as administration, state as territory\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe disciplinary division of historical work as an epistemological obstacle\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModels of state genesis, 1: Norbert Elias\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModels of state genesis, 2: Charles Tilly\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture of 24 January 1991\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReply to a question: the notion of invention under structural constraint\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModels of state genesis, 3: Philip Corrigan and Derek Sayer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe exemplary particularity of England: economic modernization and cultural archaisms\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture of 31 January 1991\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReply to questions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCultural archaisms and economic transformations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCulture and national unity: the case of Japan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBureaucracy and cultural integration\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNational unification and cultural domination\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture of 7 February 1991\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheoretical foundations for an analysis of state power\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSymbolic power: relations of force and relations of meaning\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe state as producer of principles of classification\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBelief effect and cognitive structures\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe coherence effect of state symbolic systems\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe school timetable as a state construction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe producers of doxa\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture of 14 February 1991\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSociology, an esoteric science with an exoteric air\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProfessionals and lay people\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe state structures the social order\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDoxa, orthodoxy, heterodoxy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTransmutation of private into public: the appearance of the modern state in Europe\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture of 21 February 1991\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLogic of the genesis and emergence of the state: symbolic capital\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe stages of the process of concentration of capital\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe dynastic state\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe state as a power over powers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConcentration and dispossession of species of capital: the example of physical force capital\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConstitution of a central economic capital and construction of an autonomous economic space\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture of 7 March 1991\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReply to questions: conformity and consensus\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConcentration processes of the species of capital: resistances\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe unification of the juridical market\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe constitution of an interest in the universal\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe state viewpoint and totalization: informational capital\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConcentration of cultural capital and national construction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Natural nobility’ and state nobility\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture of 14 March 1991\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDigression: an overthrow in the intellectual field\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe double face of the state: domination and integration\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJus loci and jus sanguinis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnification of the market in symbolic goods\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnalogy between the religious field and the cultural field\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYEAR 1991–1992\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture of 3 October 1991\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA model of the transformations of the dynastic state\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe notion of reproduction strategies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe notion of a system of reproduction strategies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe dynastic state in the light of reproduction strategies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ‘king’s house’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJuridical logic and practical logic of the dynastic state\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eObjectives of the next lecture\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture of 10 October 1991\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ‘house’ model against historical finalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe stakes in historical research on the state\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe contradictions of the dynastic state\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA tripartite structure\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture of 24 October 1991\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRecapitulation of the logic of the course\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFamily reproduction and state reproduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDigression on the history of political thought\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe historical role of jurists in the process of state construction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDifferentiation of power and structural corruption: an economic model\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture of 7 November 1991\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreamble: the pitfalls of communication in social science\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe example of institutionalized corruption in China, 1: the ambiguous power of sub-bureaucrats\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe example of institutionalized corruption in China, 2: the ‘pure’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe example of institutionalized corruption in China, 3: double game and double ‘I’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe genesis of the bureaucratic space and the invention of the public\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture of 14 November 1991\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConstruction of the republic and construction of the nation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe constitution of the public in the light of an English treatise on constitutional law\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe use of royal seals: the chain of warrants\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture of 21 November 1991\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReply to a question on the public\/private contrast\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe transmutation of private into public: a non-linear process\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe genesis of the meta-field of power: differentiation and dissociation of dynastic and bureaucratic authorities\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA research programme on the French Revolution\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDynastic principle versus juridical principle as seen through the lit de justice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMethodological digression: the kitchen of political theories\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJuridical struggles as symbolic struggles for power\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe three contradictions of jurists\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture of 28 November 1991\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistory as a stake in struggles\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe juridical field: a historical approach\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFunctions and functionaries\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe state as fictio juris\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJuridical capital as linguistic capital and mastery of practice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJurists face the church: a corporation acquires autonomy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReformation, Jansenism and juridism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe public: a reality without precedent that keeps coming into being\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLecture of 5 December 1991\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProgramme for a social history of political ideas and the state\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterest in disinterestedness\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJurists and the universal\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe (false) problem of the French Revolution\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe state and the nation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe state as ‘civil religion’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNationality and citizenship: contrast between the French and German models\u003c\/p\u003e 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