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The State as an Encounter

The State as an Encounter

Vedinaș, Verginia
Danisor, Diana

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 6630290704
ISBN13: 9786630290707
Publisher: Our Knowledge Publishing
Published: Jul 30 2026
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.39 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
*The State as Encounter* is a collection of essays devoted to a simple yet rarely explored idea: the state does not exist in laws but in the encounters it brings about. Far removed from technical treatises on administrative law, this book offers a profound reflection on how public institutions shape, sustain, or undermine human existence.Each essay highlights a subtle yet essential aspect of administrative life: the State's daily presence, the impersonal voice of the administrative act, the institutional silence that can protect or harm, the bureaucratic memory that preserves the fabric of our lives, contemporary transformations in the role of the State, the moral responsibility of civil servants, the emotions that permeate the administrative sphere, the structural fragility of institutions, and the silent metamorphoses of public reform.The book reads like a phenomenology of administration, an exploration-both intellectual and sensory-of the space where law, authority, vulnerability, and hope converge.

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