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Phenomena of Power : Authority, Domination, and Violence / Heinrich Popitz.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural CriticismPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231175944
  • 9780231544566
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.36
LOC classification:
  • HM1251 .P67 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors' Introduction -- Translator's Note -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Concept of Power -- Part I. Forms of Enforcement -- 2. Violence -- 3. Threatening and Being Threatened -- 4. The Authority Bond -- 5. Needs for Authority: The Change in Social Subjectivity -- 6. Technical Action -- Part II. Forms of Stabilization -- 7. Processes of Power Formation -- 8. Power and Domination: Stages of the Institutionalization of Power -- Notes -- Index
Summary: In Phenomena of Power, one of the leading figures of postwar German sociology reflects on the nature, and many forms of, power. For Heinrich Popitz, power is rooted in the human condition and is therefore part of all social relations. Drawing on philosophical anthropology, he identifies the elementary forms of power to provide detailed insight into how individuals gain and perpetuate control over others. Instead of striving for a power-free society, Popitz argues, humanity should try to impose limits on power where possible and establish counterpower where necessary.Phenomena of Power delves into the sociohistorical manifestations of power and breaks through to its general structures. Popitz distinguishes the forms of the enforcement of power as well as of its stabilization and institutionalization, clearly articulating how the mechanisms of power work and how to track them in the social world. Philosophically trained, historically informed, and endowed with keen observation, Popitz uses examples ranging from the way passengers on a ship organize deck chairs to how prisoners of war share property to illustrate his theory. Long influential in German sociology, Phenomena of Power offers a challenging reworking of one of the essential concepts of the social sciences.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editors' Introduction -- Translator's Note -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Concept of Power -- Part I. Forms of Enforcement -- 2. Violence -- 3. Threatening and Being Threatened -- 4. The Authority Bond -- 5. Needs for Authority: The Change in Social Subjectivity -- 6. Technical Action -- Part II. Forms of Stabilization -- 7. Processes of Power Formation -- 8. Power and Domination: Stages of the Institutionalization of Power -- Notes -- Index

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In Phenomena of Power, one of the leading figures of postwar German sociology reflects on the nature, and many forms of, power. For Heinrich Popitz, power is rooted in the human condition and is therefore part of all social relations. Drawing on philosophical anthropology, he identifies the elementary forms of power to provide detailed insight into how individuals gain and perpetuate control over others. Instead of striving for a power-free society, Popitz argues, humanity should try to impose limits on power where possible and establish counterpower where necessary.Phenomena of Power delves into the sociohistorical manifestations of power and breaks through to its general structures. Popitz distinguishes the forms of the enforcement of power as well as of its stabilization and institutionalization, clearly articulating how the mechanisms of power work and how to track them in the social world. Philosophically trained, historically informed, and endowed with keen observation, Popitz uses examples ranging from the way passengers on a ship organize deck chairs to how prisoners of war share property to illustrate his theory. Long influential in German sociology, Phenomena of Power offers a challenging reworking of one of the essential concepts of the social sciences.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)

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