社会学
The I in We 豆瓣
作者: Axel Honneth Polity 2012 - 10
In this volume Axel Honneth deepens and develops his highly influential theory of recognition, showing how it enables us both to rethink the concept of justice and to offer a compelling account of the relationship between social reproduction and individual identity formation. Drawing on his reassessment of Hegel's practical philosophy, Honneth argues that our conception of social justice should be redirected from a preoccupation with the principles of distributing goods to a focus on the measures for creating symmetrical relations of recognition. This theoretical reorientation has far-reaching implications for the theory of justice, as it obliges this theory to engage directly with problems concerning the organization of work and with the ideologies that stabilize relations of domination. In the final part of this volume Honneth shows how the theory of recognition provides a fruitful and illuminating way of exploring the relation between social reproduction and identity formation. Rather than seeing groups as regressive social forms that threaten the autonomy of the individual, Honneth argues that the 'I' is dependent on forms of social recognition embodied in groups, since neither self-respect nor self-esteem can be maintained without the supportive experience of practising shared values in the group. This important new book by one of the leading social philosophers of our time will be of great interest to students and scholars in philosophy, sociology, politics and the humanities and social sciences generally.
The Privileged Poor 豆瓣
作者: Anthony Abraham Jack Harvard University Press 2019 - 3
Getting in is only half the battle. The Privileged Poor reveals how―and why―disadvantaged students struggle at elite colleges, and explains what schools can do differently if these students are to thrive.
The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors―and their coffers―to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to admit these students? In The Privileged Poor, Anthony Jack reveals that the struggles of less privileged students continue long after they’ve arrived on campus. Admission, they quickly learn, is not the same as acceptance. This bracing and necessary book documents how university policies and cultures can exacerbate preexisting inequalities and reveals why these policies hit some students harder than others.
Despite their lofty aspirations, top colleges hedge their bets by recruiting their new diversity largely from the same old sources, admitting scores of lower-income black, Latino, and white undergraduates from elite private high schools like Exeter and Andover. These students approach campus life very differently from students who attended local, and typically troubled, public high schools and are often left to flounder on their own. Drawing on interviews with dozens of undergraduates at one of America’s most famous colleges and on his own experiences as one of the privileged poor, Jack describes the lives poor students bring with them and shows how powerfully background affects their chances of success.
If we truly want our top colleges to be engines of opportunity, university policies and campus cultures will have to change. Jack provides concrete advice to help schools reduce these hidden disadvantages―advice we cannot afford to ignore.
The New Spirit of Capitalism 豆瓣
作者: Luc Boltanski / Eve Chiapello 译者: Gregory Elliott Verso 2007 - 9
A century after the publication of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the “Spirit” of Capitalism a major new work examines network-based organization, employee autonomy and post-Fordist horizontal work structures.
Why is the critique of capitalism so ineffective today? In this major work, the sociologists Eve Chiapello and Luc Boltanski suggest that we should be addressing the crisis of anticapitalist critique by exploring its very roots.
This highly acclaimed work examines the structure of capitalism and how it has been reorganized sicne the 1960s. Via an unprecedented examination of management texts the authors find that employers are using the language of 1968 counterculture to drive through new work practices and more successful and subtle forms of exploitation.
They argue that from the middle of the 1970s onwards, capitalism abandoned the hierarchical Fordist work structure and developed a network-based form of organization that was founded on employee initiative and authnomy in the work-place - a “freedom” that came at the cost of material and psychological security. in a work that is already a paradigm-shifting classic, Boltanski and Chiapello show how the new spirit triumphed thanks to a remarkable recuperation of the Left’s critique of the alienation of everyday life.
This book, remarkable for its scope and ambition, seeks to lay the basis for a revival of these two complementary critiques.
中国城市劳动力市场的变迁与分层 豆瓣
作者: 李骏 2018 - 9
本书运用严谨的量化方法研究了改革开放以来中国城市劳动力市场变迁背景下的社会分层。全书共三篇:一是旧制度的新变化,主要探讨户籍制、单位制、所有制等在改革与式微过程中带来的分层机制的变化;二是劳动力市场分割,聚焦于新的分割维度的出现、不同分割维度的比较以及分割证据的纵向检验;三是大学生就业分化,专门研究大学毕业生这个特殊劳动力群体的内部分化。
Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games as Social Worlds Goodreads 豆瓣
作者: Fine, Gary Alan Univ of Chicago Pr 2002 - 8 其它标题: Shared Fantasy
This classic study still provides one of the most acute descriptions available of an often misunderstood that of fantasy role playing games like Dungeons & Dragons . Gary Alan Fine immerses himself in several different gaming systems, offering insightful details on the nature of the games and the patterns of interaction among players—as well as their reasons for playing.
The Hinge 豆瓣
作者: Gary Alan Fine University of Chicago Press 2021 - 2
Most of the time, we believe our daily lives to be governed by structures determined from above: laws that dictate our behavior, companies that pay our wages, even climate patterns that determine what we eat or where we live. In contrast, social organization is often a feature of local organization. While those forces may seem beyond individual grasp, we often come together in small communities to change circumstances that would otherwise flatten us. Challenging traditional sociological models of powerful forces, in The Hinge, Gary Alan Fine emphasizes and describes those meso-level collectives, the organizations that bridge our individual interests and the larger structures that shape our lives. Focusing on “tiny publics,” he describes meso-level social collectives as “hinges”: groups that come together to pursue a shared social goal, bridging the individual and the broader society. Understanding these hinges, Fine argues, is crucial to explaining how societies function, creating links between the micro- and macro-orders of society. He draws on historical cases and fieldwork to illustrate how these hinges work and how to describe them. In The Hinge, Fine has given us powerful new theoretical tools for understanding an essential part of our social worlds.
自动不平等 豆瓣
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
作者: [美]弗吉尼亚·尤班克斯 译者: 李明倩 商务印书馆 2021 - 4
随着高科技日新月异的发展,数字革命如火如荼地进行,数据追踪以及在此基础上的决策机制已经成为治安管理、政治预测、市场营销、信用报告、企业管理、金融业务、公共项目管理甚至刑事判决惯常使用的工具。当我们生活在一个欢庆数字化时代时,本书作者尤班克斯却在追问,数字革命是否是一场由精英主导的游戏?普通人特别是贫困人口在数字时代的命运是什么?算法是否比人类更加中立、公正和明智?作者选取了三个故事:印第安纳州尝试用自动化程序挑选符合福利系统资格的申请者;洛杉矶对无家可归者采用电子登记方式;宾夕法尼亚州阿勒格尼县采取了一种很有风险的模式,预测哪些儿童将来可能成为被虐待或忽视的受害者。通过作者的调研,得到的结果令人惊讶,美国各地的贫困人口和工人阶层都已经成为新数字贫困管理工具的对象,算法的错误和有意排斥严重影响他们的生活质量,甚至危及其生存。算法的自动决策导致的数字歧视将让所有人处在数字济贫院而不自知。
90后来了 豆瓣
6.0 (5 个评分) 作者: [韩]林洪泽(임홍택) 译者: 叶蕾蕾 中国友谊出版公司 2021 - 7
“90后到底在想些什么?”
他们渴望被社会认可,但不愿意因此失去自我。
他们追求”生活的游戏“,因为活在”照顾好自己就已经够累的世界“。
90后一代中,年纪最长的已步入30岁。他们逐渐成为中坚力量,以特有的简单、有趣和率真改变着周围的世界。本书作者林洪泽多年为韩国政府、企业做代际沟通方面的培训和演讲。他以轻快的文字风格、丰富的个案调查、统计数据、文化理论、社会背景分析,深入研究韩国的90后一代。他们身上,体现的是东亚90后一代青年共通的特性。
90后讨厌
长篇大论
倚老卖老,爹里爹气
严格的等级制度和权力结构
一切形式主义和人浮于事
工作对生活严重入侵
特权和不公平
商业欺诈和诱导消费
90后喜欢
玩梗、表情包
平等、开放的交流态度
扁平化的管理层级,决定权和参与感
务实的工作方式
工作与生活平衡,有时间发展兴趣爱好
在社会各领域实现平等和诚实
从个人喜好出发的消费
川菜 豆瓣
The Food of Si-chuan
7.8 (24 个评分) 作者: [英]扶霞·邓洛普 译者: 何雨珈 中信出版集团 2020
一餐一饭,体会中华饮食神髓,一朝一夕,烹饪日常生活至味。英国美食作家扶霞,痴迷中国美食,千里迢迢来到四川,潜心研究川菜的起源、发展与烹饪技法。
在《川菜》一书中,扶霞将20多年的经验汇集一册。诸多关于地域环境、历史文化和人文风貌的观察分析述诸笔端。全书涵盖200道经典川菜食谱、56种烹饪手法、23种独特调味。从锅碗瓢盆到配料香料;从大众熟知的鱼香肉丝、宫保鸡丁、夫妻肺片、水煮牛肉,到当地才能吃到的自贡小煎鸡、桥头一嫩、活水豆花、峨眉豆腐脑、蛋烘糕。在诸多滋味中,也尝到了活色生香的生活。
走进扶霞眼中的川菜,让世界更了解中国,也让中国人站在世界的坐标里认识自己的文化,以及自己的一日三餐。
★共赴一席中华飨宴,在餐桌上重新认识中国。穿越山水阻隔,冲破文化障碍,解读英国人眼中的川菜世界,发现我们熟悉却又陌生的中国美食。探究美食背后的地域历史与人文风貌,四川人为什么嗜辣如命?川菜何以广为流传?川菜的原料能够追溯到哪个朝代?四川人的厨房里有什么?……文化巡礼+烹饪技巧+私房菜谱,美食与美食背后的文化渊源,一册集结。
★《鱼翅与花椒》作者扶霞重磅新作,20年川菜烹饪经验集合之作。取得剑桥大学学士学位的英国美食家扶霞,千里迢迢来到四川成都,只为一探川菜的美味。经过专业学习与潜心研究,成为了英国的川菜“专家”,也是一位传播中国美食文化的使者。四次获得美食界奥斯卡“詹姆斯·比尔德大奖”,被陈晓卿评价是“非常懂中国菜的一位”,研究中国烹饪及饮食文化20余年。
★56技法,200佳肴,在这里尝到生活。涵盖200道经典川菜食谱、56种烹饪手法、23种独特调味。从熟悉的鱼香肉丝、宫保鸡丁、夫妻肺片、水煮牛肉,到只有四川人才能吃到的自贡小煎鸡、桥头一嫩、活水豆花、峨眉豆腐脑、蛋烘糕;从锅碗瓢盆、烹饪手法,到配料香料、料理窍门……在家吃自己做的川菜才是真的“安逸”。
★业内高度赞誉。获得2019年《纽约时报》“年度美食图书”、2019年美国国家公共电台“最受大众欢迎的图书”、2019年《卫报》“最佳美食书”,《悦游》2019年最佳美食旅行图书,美食评论网Chowhound 2019年秋季最佳美食图书。
★书中专业内容及食谱经过中国烹饪大师兰桂均审定,进一步保证权威性。
2021年7月7日 已读
要理解这本书的价值,需理解系统性地将一个异国菜系,从原料、方法、调味到背后地域文化转译成英语世界可以理解的文本是多么困难的一件事。可惜扶霞只当作家和厨师不当人类学家,否则以她浸淫的程度,该能做出什么样有趣的研究(笑)。打算在出国前,把这本书里的川菜烹饪英文词汇整理成文档,将来很可能用得上。
川菜 文化 社会学 美食 饮食文化
The Oxford Handbook of Populism 豆瓣
作者: Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser / Paul A. Taggart Oxford University Press 2018 - 1
Populist forces are becoming increasingly relevant across the world, and studies on populism have entered the mainstream of the political science discipline. However, so far no book has synthesized the ongoing debate on how to study the populist phenomenon. This handbook provides state of the art research and scholarship on populism, and lays out, not only the cumulated knowledge on populism, but also the ongoing discussions and research gaps on this topic.
IThe Oxford Handbook of Populism is divided into four sections. The first presents the main conceptual approaches on populism and points out how the phenomenon in question can be empirically analyzed. The second focuses on populist forces across the world and includes chapters on Africa, Australia and New Zealand, Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, India, Latin America, the Post-Soviet States, the United States, and Western Europe. The third reflects on the interaction between populism and various relevant issues both from a scholarly and political point of view. Amongst other issues, chapters analyze the relationship between populism and fascism, foreign policy, gender, nationalism, political parties, religion, social movements and technocracy. Finally, the fourth part includes some of the most recent normative debates on populism, including chapters on populism and cosmopolitanism, constitutionalism, hegemony, the history of popular sovereignty, the idea of the people, and socialism.
The handbook features contributions from leading experts in the field, and is indispensible, positioning the study of populism in political science.
信任与统治 豆瓣
作者: [美] 查尔斯·蒂利 译者: 胡位钧 2021 - 1
信任网络由网状的人际联系构成,涉及社会生活的各个方面。网络成员共同承担着一些重大而长期的事业,比如结婚、抚育孩子、维护宗教信仰和长途贸易等。那么它是如何建立,又是为何运作的?面对政治掠夺者和贪婪的统治者,信任网络借助各种方式力图免遭政治控制。非政治性的信任网络是如何躲避政权、向政权妥协,或是寻求与政权建立联系的?本书通过时间上和空间上的广泛比较,对上述行为的过程及后果进行了考察,描绘了信任网络和政权中心之间不同的关系类型,为民主化和去民主化提供了不可或缺的阐释背景。
支配与抵抗艺术:潜隐剧本 豆瓣 Goodreads
Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts
8.1 (22 个评分) 作者: 詹姆斯·斯科特 (James C. Scott) 译者: 王佳鹏 南京大学出版社 2021 - 4 其它标题: 支配与抵抗艺术
无权者与有权者之间的对抗充满了欺骗——无权者假装恭敬有礼,有权者则故意夸大他们的名望与掌控能力。如果仅接受这些表面价值,我们将无法把握权力关系中的各种矛盾、紧张和内在可能性。

通过考察世界各地文学、历史学、政治文化中的实例,著名政治学、人类学者詹姆斯· C. 斯科特深入探讨了支配者与从属群体的公开剧本及潜隐剧本之间的联系、区别和界限。出于各自的利益考虑,有权者与无权者会心照不宣地在公开互动中合作共谋,这使得公开剧本往往带有程式化和仪式化的色彩。相对地,任何从属群体都会在其苦难之中创造出特定的潜隐剧本,这些发生在后台的话语、姿态与实践代表着他们对支配者的某种权力批判。与此同时,有权者亦会发展出他们的潜隐剧本,即那些使其统治得以维系但又不能公开承认的措施和观点。

斯科特指出,在公开剧本和潜隐剧本之间最具分歧的地方,话语和权力关系会得到最为显著的表露;两者的交界之处,则是支配者与从属者持续斗争的重要地带。这部里程碑式著作,将修正我们对从属、抵抗、霸权、民间文化和反叛背后的各种观念的理解,并为权力关系的研究提供一条新的路径。
The Taming of the Samurai 豆瓣
作者: Eiko Ikegami Harvard University Press 1997 - 3
Modern Japan offers us a view of a highly developed society with its own internal logic. Eiko Ikegami makes this logic accessible to us through a sweeping investigation into the roots of Japanese organizational structures. She accomplishes this by focusing on the diverse roles that the samurai have played in Japanese history. From their rise in ancient Japan, through their dominance as warrior lords in the medieval period, and their subsequent transformation to quasi-bureaucrats at the beginning of the Tokugawa era, the samurai held center stage in Japan until their abolishment after the opening up of Japan in the mid-nineteenth century. This book demonstrates how Japan's so-called harmonious collective culture is paradoxically connected with a history of conflict. Ikegami contends that contemporary Japanese culture is based upon two remarkably complementary ingredients, honorable competition and honorable collaboration. The historical roots of this situation can be found in the process of state formation, along very different lines from that seen in Europe at around the same time. The solution that emerged out of the turbulent beginnings of the Tokugawa state was a transformation of the samurai into a hereditary class of vassal-bureaucrats, a solution that would have many unexpected ramifications for subsequent centuries. Ikegami's approach, while sociological, draws on anthropological and historical methods to provide an answer to the question of how the Japanese managed to achieve modernity without traveling the route taken by Western countries. The result is a work of enormous depth and sensitivity that will facilitate a better understanding of, and appreciation for, Japanese society.
惊呆了!原来这就是社会学 豆瓣
社会学用語図鑑
8.2 (45 个评分) 作者: [日]田中正人 / [日]香月孝史 译者: 刘晓晓 南海出版公司 2021 - 5
★ 懂点社会学,走出混沌的日常,理解社会与人生
★ 76位社会学巨擘×135个社会学核心概念×400幅超可爱漫画
上至学科奠基人奥古斯特·孔德、埃米尔·涂尔干、格奥尔格·齐美尔、马克斯·韦伯,下至当代中流砥柱安东尼·吉登斯、乔治·瑞泽尔、齐格蒙特·鲍曼——重要的社会思想 家超萌登场;
从炫耀性消费到文化资本,从社会失范到风险社会,从公共人的衰落到诸众的崛起——重要的社会学概念轻松get!
想要洞悉习以为常的社会现象背后,隐藏着怎样的本质与规律?这本书画给你看!
★ 清华大学副教授严飞、华中师范大学教授李钧鹏力荐!
很多初次接触社会学的探索者,都很好奇社会学是什么、社会学有用吗、社会学会很难懂吗。其实社会学也可以很可爱。通过本书一幅幅通俗易懂的绘画图解,我们看到社会学从古典到现代的发展脉络,看到各个思想名家的经典社会学概念,以及这些概念的应用场景,让我们在莞尔一笑中,理解我们纷繁复杂的社会。我们只有理解社会,才可以更好地通过反身性的思考理解我们自己。 ——严飞,清华大学社会学系副教授,《穿透:像社会学家一样思考》作者
研读社会学经典,关键在于将高度抽象的理论表述与自己的日常生活体验结合起来。本书通过有趣的漫画将晦涩的理论形象化,大大降低了社会学的入门难度,即使是研习社会学多年的人,也能有所收获。我在拿到书之前并没有太高的期望,但从翻开第一页起就爱不释手,花了两个晚上心情愉悦地读完,一些此前半懂不懂的概念和理论也变得亲切起来。 ——李钧鹏,华中师范大学社会学院教授
2021年6月23日 已读
漫画颇会玩梗,很扎实好玩的小书,其实还涵盖了一些临近学科的学者和理论介绍。
日本 社会 社会学 科普
人的自然善好 豆瓣
The Natural Goodness of Man: On the System of Rousseau's Thought
作者: 亚瑟·梅尔泽 译者: 任崇彬 上海人民出版社 2020
这本书自出版以来,得到了卢梭研究专家和政治哲学学者的一致好评,是目前英语世界最好的卢梭研究著作之一。首先,作者论述了蕴含在卢梭著作中的根本原则“人的自然善好”到底是何含义;其次,作者指出了,卢梭为证明“人的自然善好”所给出的内省层面的以及心理学层面的论证,为说明“恶是从何而来的”而给出的历史的论证,以及为说明“是社会使人变坏”所给出的社会层面的的论证;最后,作者谈讨了卢梭对人的问题的解决方案,并把重点放在了对《社会契约论》的讨论上,解决了由来已久的所谓卢梭思想中的个人主义与集体主义相矛盾的问题。
科学在行动 豆瓣
作者: 布鲁诺·拉图尔 东方出版社 2005 - 7
本书作者布鲁诺·拉图尔是科学知识社会的领军人物之一、巴黎学派的代表者。在这部著作中,拉图尔试图发现科学实际上是怎样“工作”的。该书以重新理解科学实践以及它与社会的关系为目的,利用大量来自科学发展的不同阶段和不同学科的轶闻趣味、案例研究和实际例证,向我们详细描述了那些能够在追随科学家左右、跟随科学家活动过程中所使用的方法规则。为了消除人们以往在自然和社会之间制造的分裂,以便形成一种新的联合,本书给予非人类因素以关键的位置。人们完全可以把本书当作一部有关科学的社会——文化研究的一般性入门读物和典型的研究实际来阅读。
形而上学俱乐部 豆瓣
The Metaphysical Club
作者: [美]路易斯·梅南(Louis Menand) 译者: 舍其 上海译文出版社 2020 - 5
美国经历了一场内战,其政府形态却没有遭遇变革。内战期间,美国没有抛弃宪法,没有暂停选举,也没有发生政变。但从其他几乎所有方面来看,美国变成了另一个国家。战争本身没有让美国变得现代,但战争标志着现代美国的诞生。
对于亲历内战的那一代人来说,战争似乎不只是民主的失败,也是文化的失败,思想的失败。创痛深沉的内战使战前的信仰和期望轰然崩塌。在战后的新世界,这些信仰显得极为过时。内战扫除了南方的奴隶制文明,随之也几乎完全扫除了北方的知识分子文化。美国花了几乎半个世纪才发展出可以取而代之的文化,找到一整套理念、一种思考方式,来帮助国人应对现代生活的种种情形。这场上下求索就是本书的主题。
回顾这个故事有很多路径。这里我们要走的路,会路经四个人的生活:奥利弗•温德尔•霍姆斯、威廉•詹姆斯、查尔斯•桑德斯•皮尔士和约翰•杜威。总的来看,他们在驱动美国思想进入现代世界上,比任何别的团体的作用都要大。他们不仅对其他作家和思想家有无与伦比的影响,也极大影响了美国人的生活。他们的思想改变了美国人的思考方式,让他们继续思考教育、民主、自由、正义和宽容。因此,他们也改变了美国人的生活方式——他们学习、表达自己观点、理解自身的方式,以及他们对待跟自己不同的人的方式
2021年6月15日 已读
虽然意译稍有过头,但书很好,即便撇开实用主义思想脉络的线索,还是很精彩,一边是美国内战史,一边是十九世纪末二十世纪初美国知识分子趣闻。进化论之于早期社会科学的影响的比我原来以为的深。
2020 思想史 知识社会学 社会学 美国
时间的全球史 豆瓣
The Global Transformation of Time
作者: [美] 瓦妮莎·奥格尔 译者: 郭科 / 章柳怡 浙江大学出版社 2021 - 6
时间是如此重要,人们须臾不可或缺,世界的运转都要依靠时间的度量。可时间又是如此虚无缥缈,看不见摸不着。那么我们现代人要如何来判断时间的流逝,以及确定具体时间的呢?而且,时间是否能在世界范围内获得一个统一的标准呢?身处非洲的人为什么会跟中国人有着同样的时间概念?我们怎么知道今晚从北京出发的航班明天会在什么时候降落在伦敦机场?
铁路、轮船、航空和电报通信的新网络使相距遥远的地方变得前所未有的接近,人们相互联系的意识加深,而时间的约束因素使得这种相互联系性面临着实际挑战。为了消除这种妨碍全球化进程的因素,自19世纪以来,人们就开始致力于建立全球统一时间标准的努力。本书通过研究近现代以来人们对标准化时间的追求,探讨了时间观念如何在全球化过程中得到发展,关于时间的意识如何在全球获得趋同的形态。同时,时间的标准化又如何对全球化进程发挥了基础性作用。
本书同时指出,时间的标准化一直到20世纪40年代还未完成,统一的日历也未实现。这表明,全球化是一个缓慢而不平衡的采纳和变异的过程,这加强了国家间的差异。
本书荣获美国“社会科学历史协会总统奖”(“Social Science History Association President's Award”)。
On the State 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Pierre Bourdieu Polity 2015 - 2
What is the nature of the modern state? How did it come into being and what are the characteristics of this distinctive field of power that has come to play such a central role in the shaping of all spheres of social, political and economic life?<br /><br />In this major work the great sociologist Pierre Bourdieu addresses these fundamental questions. Modifying Max Weber’s famous definition, Bourdieu defines the state in terms of the monopoly of legitimate physical and symbolic violence, where the monopoly of symbolic violence is the condition for the possession and exercise of physical violence. The state can be reduced neither to an apparatus of power in the service of dominant groups nor to a neutral site where conflicting interests are played out: rather, it constitutes the form of collective belief that structures the whole of social life. The ‘collective fiction’ of the state Ð a fiction with very real effects - is at the same time the product of all struggles between different interests, what is at stake in these struggles, and their very foundation.<br /><br />While the question of the state runs through the whole of Bourdieu’s work, it was never the subject of a book designed to offer a unified theory. The lecture course presented here, to which Bourdieu devoted three years of his teaching at the Collège de France, fills this gap and provides the key that brings together the whole of his research in this field. This text also shows ‘another Bourdieu’, both more concrete and more pedagogic in that he presents his thinking in the process of its development. While revealing the illusions of ‘state thought’ designed to maintain belief in government being oriented in principle to the common good, he shows himself equally critical of an ‘anti-institutional mood’ that is all too ready to reduce the construction of the bureaucratic apparatus to the function of maintaining social order.<br /><br />At a time when financial crisis is facilitating the hasty dismantling of public services, with little regard for any notion of popular sovereignty, this book offers the critical instruments needed for a more lucid understanding of the wellsprings of domination.