Andrew M. Koch, Amanda Gail Zeddy

Democracy and Domination

Technologies of Integration and the Rise of Collective Power

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on the genealogical tradition developed by Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault,Democracy and Domination argues that from the time of Ancient Greece to the present, the collective and centralizing aspects of power have been expanding in the Western world. Modern democracy should be seen as a system of domination that assists in the coordination and expansion of collective power.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9780739122150
• ISBN-10: 0739122150
• Artikelnr.: 26009961

Autorenporträt

Andrew M. Koch is professor of government and justice studies at Appalachian State University and author ofPoststructuralism and the Politics of Method,Romance and Reason: Ontological and Social Sources of Alienation, andKnowledge and Social Construction. Amanda Gail Zeddy has been an adjunct professor of American Government and Politics at Appalachian State University and is currently working on her PhD at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter 1. The Study of Domination Chapter 3
Chapter 2. Athens and Rome: Dissemination, Identity, and the Rise of
Central Power Chapter 4 Chapter 3. The Middle Ages: Domination and
Administration in an Age of Illiteracy Chapter 5 Chapter 4. The Birth of
the Nation-State and the Rise of Humanism Chapter 6 Chapter 5. Democracy,
Industrial Production, and the Rise of National Power Chapter 7 Chapter 6.
Collective Power in the Twenty-first Century Chapter 8 Concluding Remarks