Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 12:01:06 +0000 From: ccw94-AT-aber.ac.uk (Colin Wight) Subject: Re: BHA: personalities and purposes, in search of agents? Howard, You touch on some issues that have indeed been troubling me for some time. Particularly, the extent to which we might talk of collectives, e.g. the state in my discipline, as agents. You raise this as a question of the "personality of the corporation." (BTW Doug, i have finished my chapeter on this issue, it's just that I'm still not happy with it!) I'd be really interested in whatever others think on this issue. My own somewhat unhappy "fix" on the issue of the state-as-agent thesis, is to go along with Bob Jessop and view the state as a 'strategic-relational' set of structures, not an agent. But like I say, I'm not happy with it (neither will my discipline be, it almost puts them out of business). Thanks, P.S. by the way Howard, one way I have always thought about the issue of Capital as a relation, is to think in terms of such relations as being part of the causal chain. That is, such relations possess certian powers and/or liabilities which ocate tendencies in the social field. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Colin Wight Department of International Politics University of Wales, Aberystwyth Aberystwyth SY23 3DA -------------------------------------------------------- --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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