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At the Heart of the State

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

At the Heart of the State

By Didier Fassin

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About the 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 reality with a morality, embodied in the work of its agents and inscribed in the issues of its time. A political and moral anthropology, this book is the result of a five-year investigation conducted by ten scholars, based in France. It analyses, amongst other topics, the police, the court system, the prison apparatus, the social ...Show more

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9780745335599

Publisher

Pluto Press

Published year

2015

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1

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At the Heart of the State

Format

Paperback

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