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At the Heart of the State: The Moral World of Institutions
Pluto Press, 2015 eISBN: 978-1-78371-312-7 | Cloth: 978-0-7453-3560-5 | Paper: 978-0-7453-3559-9 Library of Congress Classification JA79.F3813 2015 Dewey Decimal Classification 320.101
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The state is often regarded as an abstract and neutral bureaucratic entity. Against this common sense idea, At the Heart of the State argues that it is also a concrete and situated reality, embodied in the work of its agents and inscribed in the issues of its time. The result of a five-year investigation conducted by ten scholars, this book describes and analyses the police, the court system, the prison apparatus, the social services, and mental health facilities in France. Combining genealogy and ethnography, its authors show that these state institutions do not simply implement laws, rules and procedures: they mobilise values and affects, judgements and emotions. In other words, they reflect the morality of the state. Of immense interest to both social scientists and political theorists, this work will make an important contribution to the ever expanding literature on the contemporary state. See other books on: Heart | Political ethics | Social | Social ethics | Social policy See other titles from Pluto Press |
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At the Heart of the State: The Moral World of Institutions
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
Pluto Press, 2015
eISBN: 978-1-78371-312-7
Cloth: 978-0-7453-3560-5
Paper: 978-0-7453-3559-9
eISBN: 978-1-78371-312-7
Cloth: 978-0-7453-3560-5
Paper: 978-0-7453-3559-9
The state is often regarded as an abstract and neutral bureaucratic entity. Against this common sense idea, At the Heart of the State argues that it is also a concrete and situated reality, embodied in the work of its agents and inscribed in the issues of its time.
The result of a five-year investigation conducted by ten scholars, this book describes and analyses the police, the court system, the prison apparatus, the social services, and mental health facilities in France. Combining genealogy and ethnography, its authors show that these state institutions do not simply implement laws, rules and procedures: they mobilise values and affects, judgements and emotions. In other words, they reflect the morality of the state.
Of immense interest to both social scientists and political theorists, this work will make an important contribution to the ever expanding literature on the contemporary state.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
