ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the state, with the law and bureaucracy standing out. Once again, the abstract character of political modernity comes to the fore. The state's bureaucratic administration, the judiciary and the police are analysed, as well as the rule of law and socialist legality. Weber's and Kelsen's theories of the state and the law cut across the text, pointing to the state as a legally organised system of domination. The coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic, discussed in Chapter 1, returns in connection with state measures. A brief discussion of the state as a collective subjectivity closes the chapter.
