Hegemony, Ideology, Governmentality: Theorizing State Power after Weber

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dc.contributor.authorEngland, Christopheren
dc.contributor.editorAlphin, Carolineen
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-27T23:54:04Zen
dc.date.available2021-08-27T23:54:04Zen
dc.date.issued2019-03-28en
dc.description.abstractMax Weber once claimed that the growth of bureaucratic power in late modernity may henceforth render political revolutions impossible. In this article, I stage a conversation between Weber and several of his later interlocuters on the Left. I suggest that the concepts of hegemony (Gramsci), ideology (Althusser), and governmentality (Foucault) can be read, in part, as responses to Weber. These theorists each develop distinct versions of what I call a nominalist theory of power: by starting from the ground up and showing how the state is supported by granular relationships of power that circulate outside its grasp, they hope to discover new modes of resistance and social change. I explore these distinct theories and trace their interconnections. In the end, however, I suggest that nominalist theories of power have inherent limitations and that Weber’s initial diagnosis retains important insights.en
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dc.format.extent11 pagesen
dc.format.extent448.51 KBen
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dc.identifier.citationEngland, C., 2019. Hegemony, Ideology, Governmentality: Theorizing State Power after Weber. Spectra, 7(1), pp.13–23. DOI: http://doi.org/10.21061/spectra.v7i1.124en
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.21061/spectra.v7i1.124en
dc.identifier.eissn2162-8793en
dc.identifier.issue1en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/104758en
dc.identifier.volume7en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Tech Publishingen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesStudent Publications Seriesen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.holderEngland, Christopheren
dc.rights.holderVirginia Techen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.titleHegemony, Ideology, Governmentality: Theorizing State Power after Weberen
dc.title.serialSpectraen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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