On the State : Lectures at the College de France, 1989 - 1992 (Paperback)

YEAR 1989?1990

Lecture of 18 January 1990

An unthinkable object

The state as a neutral site

The Marxist tradition

The calendar and the structure of temporality

State categories

Acts of state

The private-home market and the state

The Barre commission on housing

Notes

Lecture of 25 January 1990

The theoretical and the empirical

State commissions and stagings

The social construction of public problems

The state as viewpoint on viewpoints

Official marriage

Theory and theory effects

The two meanings of the word ‘state’

Transforming the particular into the universal

The obsequium

Institutions as ‘organized fiduciary’

Genesis of the state. Difficulties of the undertaking

Parenthesis on the teaching of research in sociology

The state and the sociologist

Notes

Lecture of 1 February 1990

The rhetoric of the official

The public and the official

The universal other and censorship

The ‘legislator as artist’

The genesis of public discourse

Public discourse and the imposition of form

Public opinion

Notes

Lecture of 8 February 1990

The concentration of symbolic resources

Sociological reading of Franz Kafka

An untenable research programme

History and sociology

Shmuel Eisenstadt’s The Political Systems of Empires

Perry Anderson’s two books

The problem of the three routes according to Barrington Moore

Notes

Lecture of 15 February 1990

The official and the private

Sociology and history: genetic structuralism

Genetic history of the state

Game and field

Anachronism and the illusion of the nominal

The two faces of the state

Notes

YEAR 1990?1991

Lecture of 10 January 1991

Historical approach and genetic approach

Research strategy

Housing policy

Interactions and structural relations

Self-evidence as an effect of institutionalization

The effect of ‘that’s the way it is …’ and the closing of possibilities

The space of possibilities

The example of spelling

Notes

Lecture of 17 January 1991

Reminder of the course’s approach

The two meanings of the word ‘state’: state as administration, state as territory

The disciplinary division of historical work as an epistemological obstacle

Models of state genesis, 1: Norbert Elias

Models of state genesis, 2: Charles Tilly

Notes

Lecture of 24 January 1991

Reply to a question: the notion of invention under structural constraint

Models of state genesis, 3: Philip Corrigan and Derek Sayer

The exemplary particularity of England: economic modernization and cultural archaisms

Notes

Lecture of 31 January 1991

Reply to questions

Cultural archaisms and economic transformations

Culture and national unity: the case of Japan

Bureaucracy and cultural integration

National unification and cultural domination

Notes

Lecture of 7 February 1991

Theoretical foundations for an analysis of state power

Symbolic power: relations of force and relations of meaning

The state as producer of principles of classification

Belief effect and cognitive structures

The coherence effect of state symbolic systems

The school timetable as a state construction

The producers of doxa

Notes

Lecture of 14 February 1991

Sociology, an esoteric science with an exoteric air

Professionals and lay people

The state structures the social order

Doxa, orthodoxy, heterodoxy

Transmutation of private into public: the appearance of the modern state in Europe

Notes

Lecture of 21 February 1991

Logic of the genesis and emergence of the state: symbolic capital

The stages of the process of concentration of capital

The dynastic state

The state as a power over powers

Concentration and dispossession of species of capital: the example of physical force capital

Constitution of a central economic capital and construction of an autonomous economic space

Notes

Lecture of 7 March 1991

Reply to questions: conformity and consensus

Concentration processes of the species of capital: resistances

The unification of the juridical market

The constitution of an interest in the universal

The state viewpoint and totalization: informational capital

Concentration of cultural capital and national construction

‘Natural nobility’ and state nobility

Lecture of 14 March 1991

Digression: an overthrow in the intellectual field

The double face of the state: domination and integration

Jus loci and jus sanguinis

Unification of the market in symbolic goods

Analogy between the religious field and the cultural field

Notes

YEAR 1991?1992

Lecture of 3 October 1991

A model of the transformations of the dynastic state

The notion of reproduction strategies

The notion of a system of reproduction strategies

The dynastic state in the light of reproduction strategies

The ‘king’s house’

Juridical logic and practical logic of the dynastic state

Objectives of the next lecture

Notes

Lecture of 10 October 1991

The ‘house’ model against historical finalism

The stakes in historical research on the state

The contradictions of the dynastic state

A tripartite structure

Notes

Lecture of 24 October 1991

Recapitulation of the logic of the course

Family reproduction and state reproduction

Digression on the history of political thought

The historical role of jurists in the process of state construction

Differentiation of power and structural corruption: an economic model

Notes

Lecture of 7 November 1991

Preamble: the pitfalls of communication in social science

The example of institutionalized corruption in China, 1: the ambiguous power of sub-bureaucrats

The example of institutionalized corruption in China, 2: the ‘pure’

The example of institutionalized corruption in China, 3: double game and double ‘I’

The genesis of the bureaucratic space and the invention of the public

Notes

Lecture of 14 November 1991

Construction of the republic and construction of the nation

The constitution of the public in the light of an English treatise on constitutional law

The use of royal seals: the chain of warrants

Notes

Lecture of 21 November 1991

Reply to a question on the public/private contrast

The transmutation of private into public: a non-linear process

The genesis of the meta-field of power: differentiation and dissociation of dynastic and bureaucratic authorities

A research programme on the French Revolution

Dynastic principle versus juridical principle as seen through the lit de justice

Methodological digression: the kitchen of political theories

Juridical struggles as symbolic struggles for power

The three contradictions of jurists

Notes

Lecture of 28 November 1991

History as a stake in struggles

The juridical field: a historical approach

Functions and functionaries

The state as fictio juris

Juridical capital as linguistic capital and mastery of practice

Jurists face the church: a corporation acquires autonomy

Reformation, Jansenism and juridism

The public: a reality without precedent that keeps coming into being

Notes

Lecture of 5 December 1991

Programme for a social history of political ideas and the state

Interest in disinterestedness

Jurists and the universal

The (false) problem of the French Revolution

The state and the nation

The state as ‘civil religion’

Nationality and citizenship: contrast between the French and German models

Struggles between interests and struggles between unconscious forms in political debate

Notes

Lecture of 12 December 1991

The construction of political space: the parliamentary game

Digression: television in the new political game

From the paper state to the real state

Domesticating the dominated: the dialectic of discipline and philanthropy

The theoretical dimension of state construction

Questions for a conclusion

Notes

APPENDICES

Notes

Bibliography

Index