The Political Anatomy of Domination

This volume tackles one of the core questions of political and social theory: state domination. The author engages in a rereading of Marx, Weber, Gramsci and, more recently, Bourdieu and Foucault and renews this problem with an approach combining comparative analysis, analysis of everyday life, and economics. The book highlights the arrangements, understandings and practices that make domination conceivable, bearable, and even acceptable or reassuring. To carry out this demonstration, Hibou examines and analyzes authoritarian or totalitarian situations —especially through the study of the paradigmatic cases of fascism, Nazism and Soviet socialism—which also allows us to grasp what domination is in the contemporary democratic framework. In doing so, this work provides us with the necessary tools to develop a renewed critique of the downward political slide in the contemporary City.