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In his most famous work, ''Society Against the State'', Clastres criticizes both the Evolutionist notion that the State would be the ultimate destiny of all societies, and the Rousseauian notion of man's natural state of innocence. Knowledge of Power is innate in any Society , thus the natural state for humans wanting to preserve Autonomy is a Society structured by a complex set of customs which actively avert the rise of Despotic power. The State is seen as but a specific constellation of hierarchical Power peculiar only to Societies who have failed to maintain these mechanisms which prevent separation from happening.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • ''« Liberté, malencontre, innommable » dans Étienne de La Boétie, Le Discours de la servitude volontaire

  • ''Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians (Chronique des indiens Guayaki), 1972

  • ''Society Against the State (La Société contre l'État'), 1974

  • ''Le Grand Parler. Mythes et chants sacrés des Indiens Guarani, 1974

  • ''French Marxists and their Anthropology (Les marxistes et leur anthropologie), 1978

  • ''Recherches d'anthropologie politique, 1980

  • ''Archeology of Violence (Archéologie de la violence. La guerre dans les sociétés primitives.)



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