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The Concealment of the State
Dr. Jason Royce Lindsey
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Concealing the state frees us from admitting the unpleasant truth—in today’s world we are utterly dependent upon the state’s increasingly frantic efforts to control risk. To this end, states have created systems of coercion and surveillance that are difficult to reconcile with our theories of political legitimacy. The dominant ideology of contemporary politics has become the concealment of the state’s overwhelming power and role in daily life. We prefer the comfortable illusion that we are autonomous individuals pursuing our plans in ... Read more
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Concealing the state frees us from admitting the unpleasant truth—in today’s world we are utterly dependent upon the state’s increasingly frantic efforts to control risk. To this end, states have created systems of coercion and surveillance that are difficult to reconcile with our theories of political legitimacy. The dominant ideology of contemporary politics has become the concealment of the state’s overwhelming power and role in daily life. We prefer the comfortable illusion that we are autonomous individuals pursuing our plans in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781441102065
SKU
V9781441102065
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About Dr. Jason Royce Lindsey
Jason Royce Lindsey is Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, St. Cloud State University, USA. His main area of research is contemporary political theory though he also researches the politics of Eastern Europe and travels there extensively.
Reviews for The Concealment of the State
The Concealment of the State is a masterful meditation on the consequences of modern statecraft. Lindsey avoids creating crude caricatures of systems of domination and instead analyzes them from every possible vantage point, with the skilled eye of an anarchist strategist, searching for weaknesses in the state's armor. The result is rich, contemporary, contemplative, radical, and is focused on the ... Read more