Power: Its Forms, Bases and Uses

ISBN-13: 9781560008224 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 356 str.

Dennis H. Wrong

Opis

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.

Spis treści

INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION, PREFACE, 1988, PREFACE, CHAPTER ONE Problems in Defining Power, CHAPTER TWO The Forms of Power: Force, Manipulation, CHAPTER THREE The Forms of Power: Authority, CHAPTER FOUR The Forms of Power: Combinations and Interrelations, CHAPTER FIVE The Forms of Power: The Interaction of Coercion and Legitimation, CHAPTER SIX The Bases of Power: Individual and Collective Resources, CHAPTER SEVEN The Bases of Power: Who gets Mobilized?, CHAPTER EIGHT The Bases of Power: Numbers and Political Democracy, CHAPTER NINE The Uses of Power, NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX

O autorze

Dennis Wrong