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Everyday Life and the State , Peter Bratsis, Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2006

Everyday Life and the State , Peter Bratsis, Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2006 Abstract The present review essay discusses Peter Bratsis’s work Everyday Life and the State (2006). It is argued that Bratsis produces a sound contribution to the on-going debate on state theory, which has its particular strengths in the innovative treatment of the public-private divide and an elaborate critique of fetishistic and ideological relations in the field of the political. In this, Bratsis builds on a broad range of structuralist, poststructuralist and dialectical positions. Deficiencies of his work are likewise to be found in this bricolage of theoretical approaches: it is argued that conflicting epistemological and ontological fundamentals are not sufficiently taken into account, which consequently leads to reductionist and errant conclusions. This is especially evident in the confusion of ‘structuralist’ and ‘dialectical’ heuristics, which leads to an insufficiently materialist picture of the state in relation to ‘everyday life’. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Historical Materialism Brill

Everyday Life and the State , Peter Bratsis, Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2006

Historical Materialism , Volume 20 (3): 201 – Jan 1, 2012

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Brill
Copyright
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
Subject
Review Articles
ISSN
1465-4466
eISSN
1569-206X
DOI
10.1163/1569206X-12341256
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Abstract

Abstract The present review essay discusses Peter Bratsis’s work Everyday Life and the State (2006). It is argued that Bratsis produces a sound contribution to the on-going debate on state theory, which has its particular strengths in the innovative treatment of the public-private divide and an elaborate critique of fetishistic and ideological relations in the field of the political. In this, Bratsis builds on a broad range of structuralist, poststructuralist and dialectical positions. Deficiencies of his work are likewise to be found in this bricolage of theoretical approaches: it is argued that conflicting epistemological and ontological fundamentals are not sufficiently taken into account, which consequently leads to reductionist and errant conclusions. This is especially evident in the confusion of ‘structuralist’ and ‘dialectical’ heuristics, which leads to an insufficiently materialist picture of the state in relation to ‘everyday life’.

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Historical MaterialismBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2012

Keywords: state theory; state as an object/subject; Poulantzas; state abstraction; fetish of the public; national ideology; everyday life; Althusserian ideology theory; Lefebvrian dialectical approach

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