The Leviathan as a capturing apparatus: a materialist perspective about State form from Marx, Althusser, Foucault and Deleuze

Abstract

This article seeks to establish an approach to the nature of the State from a materialistic conception established in authors like Marx , Althusser, Deleuze or Foucault, in opposition to any mysticism or ideology about the State form, that unfortunately in many occasions the different theories of the State have fallen, anchoring the problematic of the State from some analysis attached to State practices and its materiality. In this regard, it will try to seek a definition of State, the reason for its existence, an ultimate nature if it has, especially if we consider the confusion that implies the multiplicity of ways to refer to it, that arise in these postmodern times.