On the State
On the State What is the nature of the modern state? Modifying Max Weber's famous definition, Bourdieu defines the state in terms of the monopoly of legitimate physical and symbolic violence, where…
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On the State
What is the nature of the modern state? 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. 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?In this major work the great sociologist Pierre Bourdieu addresses these fundamental questions.
The 'collective fiction' of the state 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.
On the State
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Saving the State
The Signal State
The Servile State
The Return of the State