Power : Oppression, Subservience, and Resistance

Belliotti, Raymond Angelo

State University of New York Press（2017/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781438459561
• DDC分類 320.01

Full Description

Deepens our understanding of power through a survey of how its dynamics have been understood from ancient times to the present.

Frequently understood in simplistic and often highly negative terms, the concept of power has proven to be both uncommonly intriguing and maddeningly elusive. In Power, Raymond Angelo Belliotti begins by fashioning a general definition of power that is refined enough to capture the numerous types of power in all their multifaceted complexity. He then proceeds in a series of discrete yet thematically connected meditations to explore the meaning of power in ancient, modern, and contemporary thought. In grappling with the critical questions surrounding the accumulation, distribution, and exercise of personal and social power, this work allows us to confront fundamental questions of who we are and how we might live better lives.

Contents

Abbreviations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part One

I. Concepts of Power

II. Thrasymachus (ca. 459 BC-ca. 400 BC) and Socrates (ca. 470 BC-ca. 399 BC): Does Might Make Right?

III. Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527): The Ambiguity of Power

IV. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): The Will to Power

Part Two

V. Stoicism: Overcoming Oppression through Attitude

VI. Georg W. F. Hegel (1770-1831): The Dynamic of Dyadic Relationships of Power

VII. Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) Securing the Acquiescence of the Oppressed

Part Three

VIII. Michel Foucault (1926-1984): The Ubiquity of Power

IX. Jürgen Habermas (1929-): The Power of Communicative Rationality

X. Feminism: The Power of Collective Transformation

XI. Final Words

Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
Index