Michael Mair

The Problem of the State

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9780367769949
• ISBN-10: 0367769948
• Artikelnr.: 69891575

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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