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Recent interest among political theorists & sociologists in civil society studies has led neo-Marxists to revise & defend their studies of the state. Empirical evidence & theoretical arguments are used to deconstruct this binary opposition between the state & civil society. In addition, the emergence of government funding & inspection of private charities in Ontario is reviewed in order to show that a rewriting of the history of the symbiotic relationship between public & private resources in the management of poverty, crime, & vice is needed. Such a rewriting should focus on both the well-known continuities & the less-discussed continuities in administrative practice & political philosophy that link the pre- & post-welfare state systems. M. Maguire

AbstractFoucault's innovative and influential explorations of sexual and moral regulation did not sufficiently explore the connections or contradictions between moral regulation and economic processes. This paper draws on Pierre Bourdieu's materialist concept of "cultural capital" in the elaboration of a model for the study of moral regulation based on the concept of "moral capital". The accumulation of moral capital, it is argued here, mimics that of economic capital, and yet it also acts as an external limit to economic capital accumulation. This dialectical model is both elaborated and tested through a historical overview of philanthropic techniques for the moral regulation of the urban poor.

Les discussions au sujet des méthodes littéraires en recherche sociale ont échoué jusqu'ici, à souligner les spécificites des manières sociales (en opposition à littéraires) de lire les textes ou en général, d'analyser les systémes de signifiants. Il n'existe pas de discours sociaux comme il en existe des littéraires, mais cet article argumente le fait qu'il y à des manières différentes de considérer la multiplicité des discours autour de nous. Alors que des modes littéraires de lecture cherchent à découvrir le fonctionnement interne des discours, l'analyse sociale est caractérisee par le probleme de la formation ou de la re‐formation à la subjectivité sociale. On argumente le fait que le caractere politique de la subjectivité sociale donne un tour spécifique à la tâche de l'analyse du discours social et nous aide à choisir parmi une pléthore de techniques littéraires. En conséquence, déconstruction, science de la narration et analyse de tournures rhétoriques sont évaluées dans cette optique.Debates about literary methods in social research have thus far failed to highlight the specificities of social (as opposed to literary) ways of reading texts or, in general, analysing systems of signifiers. There are no social as opposed to literary discourses, but this article argues that there are different ways of considering the multiplicity of discourses around us. While literary modes of reading seek to uncover the internal workings of discourses, social analysis is characterized by a concern for the formation and re‐formation of social subjectivity. It is argued that the practice‐oriented character of social subjectivity gives a specific twist to the task of social discourse analysis, and helps us to choose among a potential plethora of literary techniques. Accordingly, deconstruction, narratology, and the analysis of rhetorical tropes are evaluated in this light.

1. Gay science as law : an outline for a Nietzschean jurisprudence / Jonathan Yovel -- 2. From a biopolitical point of view : Nietzsche's philosophy of crime / Friedrich Balke -- 3. Pain, memory, and the creation of the liberal legal subject : Nietzsche on the criminal law / Mariana Valverde -- 4. Law's ignoble compassion / Marinos Diamantides -- 5. Aphorisms, objects, culture / Tatiana Flessas -- 6. Nietzsche between Jews and jurists / Anton Schutz -- 7. Nietzsche's hermeneutics : good and bad interpreters of texts / Richard Weisberg -- 8. The fourth book of the legislator : Nietzsche and John Neville Figgis / Adam Gearey -- 9. Slow reading / Peter Goodrich.

Nietzsche and Legal Theory is an anthology designed to provide legal and socio-legal scholars with a sense of the very wide range of projects and questions in whose pursuit Nietzsche's work can be useful. From medical ethics to criminology, from the systemic anti-Semitism of legal codes arising in Christian cultures, to the details of intellectual property debates about regulating the use of culturally significant objects, the contributors (from the fields of law, philosophy, criminology, cultural studies, and literary studies) demonstrate and enact the sort of creativity that Nietzsche associ.