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In this concluding volume in the trilogy that begins with On Power and moves on to Sovereignty, Bertrand de Jouvenel proposes to remedy a serious deficiency in political science, namely, the lack of agreement on first principles, or elements. The author's concern is with political processes as they actually exist, not as they are conjectured to be in hypothetical models. As an indication of the originality and imaginativeness that Jouvenel brings to his task, the sections explore: Politics as History; Setting - Ego in Otherdom; Action - Instigation and Response; Authority - 'Potestas' and...

Jest to dzieło jednego z najwybitniejszych umysłów europejskich, francuskiego politologa i ekonomisty, Bertranda de Jouvenel. Autora wydanej przed dwoma laty Redystrybucji. Opasłe tomisko liczy sobie 460 stron formatu B5, na których spisano dzieje władzy politycznej - od jej powstania poprzez monarchię, feudalizmy, do kapitalizmu i faszyzmu sprzed i z czasu II wojny światowej.

An examination of the nature and history of authority, the political good, the sovereign and liberty. The foreword places the author's work in the context of his entire corpus.

Bertrand de Jouvenel (1903 1987) was a renowned French philosopher and political economist. In Sovereignty he turned his attention to the relationship between the distribution of power and the creation of an ethical society. More specifically, he was concerned with the potential confusion of the body politic resulting from the development of increasingly dynamic and nebulous social conditions. The text is written in an exploratory fashion, reflecting the authorial perception of an ambiguity in modern political structures. This translated Cambridge edition, which was first published in 1957,...

Commissions of experts regularly meet to reply to questions such as: What will be the population of the country, or even of our planet, in ten, fifteen or twenty-five years? In what proportion will production have increased, what modifications will its composition and utilizations have undergone? The attraction of efforts to forecast the future continues. That is a fact. How does it proceed? That is a problem, one on which de Jouvenel focuses on in this book. The Art of Conjecture clearly explains what the "study of the future" can mean. De Jouvenel emphasizes the logical and political...