Everyday Life and the State

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By: Peter Bratsis

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Paperback | 15 March 2007

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'Peter Bratsis breaks new ground, forcing us to think of the connections between big structures and our most intimate inner lives. A fascinating and erudite book.' -Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Nearly four centuries ago, liberal political thought asserted that the state was the product of a distant, pre-historical, social contract. Social science has done little to overcome this fiction. Even the most radical of theories have tended to remain silent on the question of the production of the state, preferring instead to focus on the determinations and functions of state actions. Bratsis argues that the causes of the state are to be found within everyday life. Building upon insights from social, political, and anthropological theories, his book shows how the repetitions and habits of our daily lives lead to our nationalization and the perception of certain interests and institutions as 'public.' Bratsis shows that only by seeking the state's everyday, material causes can we free ourselves from the pitfalls of viewing the state as natural, inevitable, and independent from social relations.

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"Peter Bratsis makes a significant contribution to our understanding of one of the most important political issues of our time-the nature and production of the state, and its relationship to the concrete realities of people's lived experience. Offering a valuable rereading of marxist state- theory, he extends it in original ways to connect to the complexities and contradictions of contemporary political life."
-Lawrence Grossberg, author of Caught in the Crossfire: Kids, Politics, and America's Future (Paradigm, 2005)

"Peter Bratsis breaks new ground, forcing us to think of the connections between big structures and our most intimate inner lives. A fascinating and erudite book." -Frances Fox Piven, CUNY

"This is an important theoretical and empirical contribution to our understanding of the state and state power. Arguing that we should not take the state too literally, as a simple fact of life, it shows how we can analyze the ways in which a heterogeneous web of social and political actors reproduce the state in its various moments through a variety of interconnected everyday practices. It will have a significant impact on how state is theorized and researched in many disciplines and, especially, in inter-disciplinary inquiries."
-Bob Jessop, Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Don't Take It Literally	p. 1
Situating the Arguments	p. 3
The Spontaneous Theory of the State and the State as Spontaneous Theory	p. 7
The State as Subject and as Object	p. 9
A Note on Philip Abrams and Ontology	p. 13
The State as a Social Relation	p. 17
From the Reification of the State to Its Explanation	p. 20
From The King's Two Bodies to the Fetish of the Public: The Foundations of the State Abstraction	p. 25
The Polis Versus the State	p. 25
Kantorowicz as State Theorist	p. 33
The Bourgeois Foundations and Functions of the Private/Public Split	p. 38
Exchange, Concrete Abstractions, and the Fetish of the Public	p. 44
Political Corruption as Symptom of the Public Fetish; or, Rules of Separation and Illusions of Purity in Bourgeois Societies	p. 51
What Is Political Corruption?	p. 51
Why Corruption?	p. 56
Rules of Separation: From Leviticus to Washington. D.C.	p. 61
The Australian Case: Fetishism Revealed	p. 68
The National Individual and the Machine of Enjoyment; or, The Dangers of Baseball, Hot Dogs, and Apple Pie	p. 75
From Rousseau to Easton, Identifying the Problem	p. 76
Practice, Ideology, and Interpellation	p. 82
Enjoyment and the Everyday	p. 91
The Constitution of the Greek Americans: Toward an Empirical Study of Interpellation	p. 99
The Fried and the Baked	p. 101
The Discrete Charm of the Greek Americans	p. 101
The Greek American Work Ethic and Family Life	p. 102
Religion, Superstitions, and Totems	p. 103
Friends, Language, and Leisure	p. 104
The Symbolic Order and the Mapping of the Greek American Everyday	p. 104
Interpellation and the National Political Community	p. 108
Tentative Conclusions and Notes Toward Future Study	p. 111
Leonard Cohen as Political Theorist	p. 111
Considerations on Everyday Life	p. 112
What Is the State?	p. 114
Materialism, the Public/Private Split, and the National Individual	p. 115
Reconsiderations, Clarifications, and Notes Toward Future Analyses	p. 117
Appendix	p. 121
Bibliography	p. 127
Index	p. 135
About the Author	p. 139
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