The “State” and the “Political” in the Evolution of Pierre Clastres’ Thought: a Politological Reading

Authors

  • Filippo Benedetti University of Rome LUMSA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1825-9618/16373

Keywords:

Pierre Clastres, Primitive Society, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Carl Schmitt, Political Anthropology, Political Science

Abstract

According to anthropologist Pierre Clastres, State and politics have always been seized, in Western culture, as two necessarily connected concepts – State is a political entity, there is no politics without the State. His studies try to de-construct this paradigm by considering primitive societies as societies without and against the State. This paper examines Clastres’ texts seeking to contextualise his thought within frameworks of legal and political sciences, demonstrating so that political anthropology and political sciences have strong epistemological links.

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Published

2023-02-01

How to Cite

Benedetti, F. (2022). The “State” and the “Political” in the Evolution of Pierre Clastres’ Thought: a Politological Reading. Scienza & Politica. Per Una Storia Delle Dottrine, 34(67), 143–160. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1825-9618/16373

Issue

Vol. 34 No. 67 (2022): The Problem of Emancipation and Emancipation as a Problem (Edited by Dana Portaleone)

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