The State and the rule of law
By: eBlandine Kriegel ; translated by Marc A. LePain and Jeffrey C. Cohen with a foreword by Donald R. Kelley.
Series: New French thought; Princeton series in new French thought
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Princeton; Chichester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Description: Blandine Kriegel, at one time a collaborator with Michel Foucault, is one of France's foremost political theorists. This translation of her celebrated work L'Etat et les esclaves makes available for English-speaking readers her impassioned defense of the state.

Published in France in 1979 and republished in 1989, this work challenged not only the anti-statism of the 1960s but also generations of romanticism in politics that, in Kriegel's view, inadvertently threatened the cause of liberty by refusing to distinguish between the despotic and the lawful state.