Everyday life and the state / Peter Bratsis
- Bib ID:
- 3701282
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Bratsis, Peter
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- Description:
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- Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, c2006
- x,139 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781594512186
- 1594512183
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: don't take it literally
- Situating the arguments
- The spontaneous theory of the state and the state as spontaneous theory
- The state as subject and as object
- A note on Philip Abrams and ontology
- The state as a social relation
- From the reification of the state to its explanation
- From the king's two bodies to the fetish of the public: The foundations of the state abstraction
- The polis versus the state
- Kantorowicz as state theorist
- The bourgeois foundations and functions of the public/private split
- Exchange, concrete abstractions, and the fetish of the public
- Political corruption as symptom of the public fetish or, rules of separation and illusions of purity in bourgeois societies
- What is political corruption?
- Why corruption?
- Rules of separation: from Leviticus to Washington, D.C.
- The Australian case: fetishism revealed
- The national individual and the machine of enjoyment; or, the dangers of baseball, hot dogs, and apple pie
- From Rousseau to Easton, identifying the problem
- Practice, ideology, and interpellation
- Enjoyment and the everyday
- The constitution of the Greek Americans: toward an empirical study of interpellation
- The fried and the baked
- The discrete charm of the Greek Americans
- The Greek American work ethic and family life
- Religion, superstitions, and totems
- Friends, language, and leisure
- The symbolic order and the mapping of the Greek American everyday
- Interpellation and the national
- Political community
- Tentative conclusions and notes toward future study
- Leonard Cohen as political theorist
- Considerations on everyday life
- What is the state?
- Materialism, the public/private split, and the national individual
- Reconsiderations, clarifications, and notes toward future analyses.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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