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Book review: on the state: lectures at the College de France 1989-1992 by Pierre Bourdieu

Dean, John (2015) Book review: on the state: lectures at the College de France 1989-1992 by Pierre Bourdieu. LSE Review of Books (19 Mar 2015). Website.

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Abstract

What is the nature of the modern state? 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? These are the questions addressed by Pierre Bourdieu in ‘On the State’, which is derived from a lecture course he devoted three years of his teaching to at the Collège de France. Jon Dean writes that the book offers an insight into the construction of academic knowledge, and the more randomly inspired metaphors and anecdotes which make up the process of learning.

Item Type: Online resource (Website)
Official URL: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information: © 2015 The Author(s) CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Divisions: LSE
Subjects: D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D204 Modern History
J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General)
Date Deposited: 12 Apr 2017 14:08
Last Modified: 14 Sep 2024 00:08
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/73695

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