Power: Its Forms, Bases, and UsesTransaction Publishers - Всего страниц: 326 In one grand effort, this is an anatomy of power, a history of the ways in which it has been defined, and a study of its forms (force, manipulation, authority, and persuasion), its bases (individual and collective resources, political mobilization), and its uses. The issues that Dennis Wrong addresses range from the philosophical and ethical to the psychological and political. Much of the work is punctuated with careful examples from history. While the author illuminates his discussion with references to Weber, Marx, Freud, Plato, Dostoevsky, Orwell, Hobbes, Arendt, and Machiavelli, he keeps his arguments grounded in contemporary practical issues, such as class conflicts, multi-party politics, and parent-child relationships. In his new introduction, prepared for the 1995 edition of Power, the author reconsiders the concept of power, now locating it in the broader traditions of the social sciences rather than as a series of actions and actors within the sociological tradition. As a result, Wrong emphasizes such major distinctions as "power over" and "power to," and various conflations of power as commonly used. The new opening provides the reader with a deeper appreciation of the non-reductionist character of the book as a whole. |
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... latter 's sweeping and diffuse generality. The concept of power continues to possess, unlike influence, overtones of coercion even among writers who do not define it as necessarily coercive. Max Weber's definition, probably the most ...
... latter 's sweeping and diffuse generality. The concept of power continues to possess, unlike influence, overtones of coercion even among writers who do not define it as necessarily coercive. Max Weber's definition, probably the most ...
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... latter, a special case of the former, suggests the potentiality of hostility, conflict, and oppression in human relations though it is only a potentiality as I have argued in contending that power is not necessarily coercive. To say ...
... latter, a special case of the former, suggests the potentiality of hostility, conflict, and oppression in human relations though it is only a potentiality as I have argued in contending that power is not necessarily coercive. To say ...
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... latter a special case of the former, is obscured. This has the paradoxical effect of seeming to equate power with freedom, or the capacity to choose one's actions without external constraint. But power may be precisely such a constraint ...
... latter a special case of the former, is obscured. This has the paradoxical effect of seeming to equate power with freedom, or the capacity to choose one's actions without external constraint. But power may be precisely such a constraint ...
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... latter relational or interactionist conception of power in Chapter One, which I only partially corrected in Chapter Nine in discussions that also dealt with other issues. The most influential recent writer on the subject of power has ...
... latter relational or interactionist conception of power in Chapter One, which I only partially corrected in Chapter Nine in discussions that also dealt with other issues. The most influential recent writer on the subject of power has ...
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... latter disposed to insist on the irreducibly coercive face of power. These debates no longer preoccupy sociologists and political scientists in the terms in which they were first presented, although they can scarcely be said to have ...
... latter disposed to insist on the irreducibly coercive face of power. These debates no longer preoccupy sociologists and political scientists in the terms in which they were first presented, although they can scarcely be said to have ...
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Стр. 220 - I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. And the cause of this is not always that a man hopes for a more intensive delight than he has already attained to, or that he cannot be content with a moderate power; but because he cannot assure the power and means to live well which he hath present, without the acquisition of more.
Стр. 220 - From this equality of ability, ariseth equality of hope in the attaining of our ends. And therefore if any two men desire the same thing, which nevertheless they cannot both enjoy, they become enemies; and in the way to their end, which is principally their own conservation, and sometimes their delectation only, endeavour to destroy, or subdue one another.
Стр. 29 - Sticks and stones May break my bones But names can never hurt me.
Стр. 259 - Robert A. Dahl and Charles E. Lindblom, Politics, Economics and Welfare, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1953; Strategy of Decision, op.
Стр. 22 - power' the chance of a man or of a number of men to realize their own will in a communal action even against the resistance of others who are participating in the action.