Mark Haugaard

The four dimensions of power (eBook, ePUB)

Understanding domination, empowerment and democracy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this accessible and sophisticated exploration of the nature and workings of social and political power, Mark 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, Haugaard 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 undergraduates, postgraduates and academics, while offering an indispensable guide for activists wishing to understand domination, resistance and empowerment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526110398
• Artikelnr.: 59744166

Autorenporträt

Mark Haugaard is Professor in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway

Inhaltsangabe

'Hugely impressive. Haugaard embraces a wide range of issues and of
relevant thinkers and theories and skilfully deploys the various analytical
distinctions that have surfaced in discussion of power-all within a
framework that gives the reader the sense of moving both forward and
deeper. The product of many years of reflection, this readable book
achieves something very important indeed.' Steven Lukes, Professor of
Sociology, New York University and author of Power: A Radical View 'Power
is one of the most important and yet complex concepts through which we make
sense of social and political life. And no one rivals Mark Haugaard in
analysing equally carefully and vividly the many dimensions of power. The
magnum opus of one of the most powerful and imaginative social theorists of
our time.' Rainer Forst, Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy,
Goethe University Frankfurt 'Pushing the standard actor-agency model toward
Wittgenstein, Schutz, Austin, and cultural theory, Haugaard produces a
dazzling new map of the subtle and complex intertwinings that political and
social power consist of.' Jeffrey C. Alexander, Lillian Chavenson Saden
Professor of Sociology, Yale University