Administering Civil Society

To preserve social order the state must administer civil society, with a threefold purpose - the fashioning of the market, the constitution of legal subjectivity and the subsumption of struggle. In Administering Civil Society Mark Neocleous offers a rethinking of the state-civil society distinction through the idea of political administration. This is achieved through an original reading of Hegel's Philosophy of Right and an insightful critique of Foucault's account of power and administration. The outcome is a highly provocative theory of state power.

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MARK NEOCLEOUS

Inhalt
Preface - State Power, Social Power - From Imperialism to Ideology - Foucault and the End of Politics - The Normality of the English: Rethinking State and Class in Britain - Political Administration in Britain: The Fashioning of the Market, the Constitution of Legal Subjects and the Subsumption of Struggle - Notes - List of Works Cited - Index