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"Mark Neocleous offers a contemporary understanding of the modern state through the unusual medium of its body, mind and personality, and through the space it occupies in the social world. It's a work that not only draws upon our existing imagination of the state, but also feeds it." Professor Robert Fine
*What is the connection between Ronald Reagan's bottom and the King's head?
*Why are weather maps profoundly ideological?
*How do corporations get away with murder?
*Who are the scum of the earth?
In this book Mark Neocleous explores such questions through a critique of what he describes as the statist political imaginary. Unpicking this imaginary while also avoiding traditional approaches to state power, the book examines the way that the state has been imagined in terms traditionally associated with human subjectivity: body, mind, personality and home. Around these themes and through an engagement with the work of a diverse range of writers, Neocleous weaves a set of arguments concerning the three icons of the political imagination - the political collective, the sovereign agency and the enemy figure. From these arguments he draws out some telling connections between the role of the state in fabricating order, the social and juridical power of capital, and the relation between fascism and bourgeois ideology.
"Mark Neocleous offers a contemporary understanding of the modern state through the unusual medium of its body, mind and personality, and through the space it occupies in the social world. It's a work that not only draws upon our existing imagination of the state, but also feeds it." Professor Robert Fine
*What is the connection between Ronald Reagan's bottom and the King's head?
*Why are weather maps profoundly ideological?
*How do corporations get away with murder?
*Who are the scum of the earth?
In this book Mark Neocleous explores such questions through a critique of what he describes as the statist political imaginary. Unpicking this imaginary while also avoiding traditional approaches to state power, the book examines the way that the state has been imagined in terms traditionally associated with human subjectivity: body, mind, personality and home. Around these themes and through an engagement with the work of a diverse range of writers, Neocleous weaves a set of arguments concerning the three icons of the political imagination - the political collective, the sovereign agency and the enemy figure. From these arguments he draws out some telling connections between the role of the state in fabricating order, the social and juridical power of capital, and the relation between fascism and bourgeois ideology.
Preface
Part one: The Body of the State
Absolute bodies
Social bodies
Dirty bodies
Part two: The mind of the state
Raison d'Etat:a rationality of expedience
Character angelicus: the intelligent state
Arcana imperii: secrecy, privacy, idiocy
Part three: The personality of the state
Hobbes's person
The personification of capital
The revenge of sovereignty
Part four: The home of the state
The terror of territory
The scum of the earth, or, once more on the dirty social body
The violence of cartography
Coda
Notes
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2003 |
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Genre: | Importe, Soziologie |
Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9780335203512 |
ISBN-10: | 0335203515 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Neocleous, Mark |
Hersteller: | McGraw-Hill Publishing Company |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 229 x 152 x 10 mm |
Von/Mit: | Mark Neocleous |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 09.2003 |
Gewicht: | 0,254 kg |
Preface
Part one: The Body of the State
Absolute bodies
Social bodies
Dirty bodies
Part two: The mind of the state
Raison d'Etat:a rationality of expedience
Character angelicus: the intelligent state
Arcana imperii: secrecy, privacy, idiocy
Part three: The personality of the state
Hobbes's person
The personification of capital
The revenge of sovereignty
Part four: The home of the state
The terror of territory
The scum of the earth, or, once more on the dirty social body
The violence of cartography
Coda
Notes
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2003 |
---|---|
Genre: | Importe, Soziologie |
Rubrik: | Wissenschaften |
Medium: | Taschenbuch |
ISBN-13: | 9780335203512 |
ISBN-10: | 0335203515 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Autor: | Neocleous, Mark |
Hersteller: | McGraw-Hill Publishing Company |
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
Maße: | 229 x 152 x 10 mm |
Von/Mit: | Mark Neocleous |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 09.2003 |
Gewicht: | 0,254 kg |