Abstract
P. Bourdieu's analysis of the State is an epoch-making accomplishment based upon his theory of practice.
He regards the State as a legitimately exercised field of physical and symbolic violence and as a monopolisticaly concentrated field of various forms of capital. The symbolic violence forces the legitimacy on actors or agents, and then, forms the cognitive structure in their mentality.
Bourdieu analyzes the historical process behind the formation of the modern State, and theoreticaly explains the correspondence between the objective structure of the social world and the cognitive structure in actors or agents. I focus on the importance of his analysis of the State.
