Twilight Of The American State

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Charts
	Chart I. Liberal Democratic/Administered States
	Chart II. Liberal Democratic/Administered/Neoliberal States
Acknowledgments
Preface
I. Introduction—Distractionand Catastrophe
	The Trump Show
	The Current Disorder
	What Now?
II. The Liberal Democratic State
	The Emergence of the Liberal Democratic State
	The U.S. Constitution—Sacredand Prosaic
	State and Civil Society
	Parting Thoughts
III. The Administered State
	Administered and Administrative
	The Administrative State
	The Administered State
	Slippage—fromthe Administrative State to the Administered State
	Design—from the Legal Academy to the Administered State
	The Corrosive Consequences of the “Constructive” Approaches
IV. The Neoliberal State
	A More Materialist Account of Neoliberalism
	What Neoliberalism Is Not
	The Legal Mechanics of Invisibilization
	The Legal Mechanics of Neoliberalism
	The Erasure of the State/Civil Society Distinction
	The Neoliberal Entanglement of State and Civil Society
	The Contradictions of the Neoliberal State
	Neoliberal Futures
	Neoliberal Domination?
V. The Dissociative State
	A Lack of Awareness and Reconnaissance
	The Absence of Legal Mind
	Uber-Positivism
	The Dissolution of Identity
VI. The Authoritarian Temptation
	Authoritarian Opportunism
	Mythic Fascism
VII. The Contest of Diagnoses
	Culture-WideDecadence
	Macro Blockage—MicroProliferation
	The Dark Specters
	Misapprehending Social Coordination Systems
Coda
Notes on Method
Notes
Index