On the Notions of Police/State (of Situation): An Economic Perspective in Light of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

In this essay we thus propose a juxtaposition of Hegel’s vis-à-vis Badiou’s or Rancière’s position on the notions Police/State of Situation and Corporation by highlighting Hegel’s affinity to political economy and his progression towards the institutions of the state, focusing primarily on economical notions.

Our challenge, once again, is to search for a contemporary definition of the opposition between the bourgeois world and the element of the proletariat in an age of current financial capitalism. The “notorious” element should now be called the nonidentity multiplicity; the stage of technology is our information age and the mode of production is called the financial capitalist institutional framework.