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In this accessible and sophisticated exploration of the nature and workings of social and political power, Haugaard examines the interrelation between domination and empowerment. Building upon the perspectives of Steven Lukes, Michel Foucault, Amy Allen, Hannah Arendt, Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu and others, he offers a clear theoretical framework, delineating power in four interrelated dimensions.
The first and second dimensions of power entail two different types of social conflict. The third dimension concerns tacit knowledge, uses of truth and reification. Drawing upon genealogical theory and accounts of slavery as social death, the fourth dimension of power concerns the power to create social subjects. The book concludes with an original normative pragmatist power-based account of democracy.
Offering lucid and entertaining illustrations of complex theoretical perspectives, this book is essential reading for scholars and activists.
Contents
Introduction: Conceptions of power and an overview
1 The first dimension of power: Violence, coercion and authority
2 The second dimension of power: Conflicts over structures or deep conflict, and dominant ideology
3 The first and second dimensions of power contrasted: Deep versus shallow conflict and resistance
4 The third dimension of power: Practical consciousness knowledge, consciousness raising, the natural attitude and the social construction of reasonable/unreasonable
5 The third dimension continued: Conventions, reification, the sacred and essentialism
6 The third dimension continued: Descartes' error, reification of truth and fallible truth
7 The fourth dimension of power: The making of the social subject
8 The fourth dimension continued: Social death through slavery, death-camps and solitary confinement
9 Normative analysis of the four dimensions of power: A pragmatist approach: what is power for?
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