Social Power and Political Freedom
Author | : Gene Sharp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gene Sharp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nikolas Rose |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1999-05-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521659055 |
Powers of Freedom, first published in 1999, offers a compelling approach to the analysis of political power which extends Foucault's hypotheses on governmentality in challenging ways. Nikolas Rose sets out the key characteristics of this approach to political power and analyses the government of conduct. He analyses the role of expertise, the politics of numbers, technologies of economic management and the political uses of space. He illuminates the relation of this approach to contemporary theories of 'risk society' and 'the sociology of governance'. He argues that freedom is not the opposite of government but one of its key inventions and most significant resources. He also seeks some rapprochement between analyses of government and the concerns of critical sociology, cultural studies and Marxism, to establish a basis for the critique of power and its exercise. The book will be of interest to students and scholars in political theory, sociology, social policy and cultural studies.
Author | : Lawrence Hamilton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2014-07-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107062969 |
A novel, sophisticated and realistic account of freedom as power through political representation.
Author | : Ilya Somin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2020-04-23 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0190054603 |
Ballot box voting is often considered the essence of political freedom. But it has two major shortcomings: individual voters have little chance of making a difference, and they face strong incentives to remain ignorant about the issues at stake. "Voting with your feet," however, avoids both these pitfalls and offers a wider range of choices. In Free to Move, Ilya Somin explains how broadening opportunities for foot voting can greatly enhance political liberty for millions of people around the world. People can vote with their feet through international migration, choosing where to live within a federal system, and by making decisions in the private sector. Somin addresses a variety of common objections to expanded migration rights, including claims that the "self-determination" of natives requires giving them the power to exclude migrants, and arguments that migration is likely to have harmful side effects, such as undermining political institutions, overburdening the welfare state, increasing crime and terrorism, and spreading undesirable cultural values. While these objections are usually directed at international migration, Somin shows how a consistent commitment to such theories would also justify severe restrictions on domestic freedom of movement. By making a systematic case for a more open world, Free to Move challenges conventional wisdom on both the left and the right. This revised and expanded edition addresses key new issues, including fears that migration could spread dangerous diseases, such as Covid-19, claims that immigrants might generate a political backlash that threatens democracy, and the impact of remote work.
Author | : Axel Honneth |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2014-03-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0745680062 |
The theory of justice is one of the most intensely debated areas of contemporary philosophy. Most theories of justice, however, have only attained their high level of justification at great cost. By focusing on purely normative, abstract principles, they become detached from the sphere that constitutes their “field of application” - namely, social reality. Axel Honneth proposes a different approach. He seeks to derive the currently definitive criteria of social justice directly from the normative claims that have developed within Western liberal democratic societies. These criteria and these claims together make up what he terms “democratic ethical life”: a system of morally legitimate norms that are not only legally anchored, but also institutionally established. Honneth justifies this far-reaching endeavour by demonstrating that all essential spheres of action in Western societies share a single feature, as they all claim to realize a specific aspect of individual freedom. In the spirit of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right and guided by the theory of recognition, Honneth shows how principles of individual freedom are generated which constitute the standard of justice in various concrete social spheres: personal relationships, economic activity in the market, and the political public sphere. Honneth seeks thereby to realize a very ambitious aim: to renew the theory of justice as an analysis of society.
Author | : Mariam Thalos |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2016-03-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1317394941 |
In A Social Theory of Freedom, Mariam Thalos argues that the theory of human freedom should be a broadly social and political theory, rather than a theory that places itself in opposition to the issue of determinism. Thalos rejects the premise that a theory of freedom is fundamentally a theory of the metaphysics of constraint and, instead, lays out a political conception of freedom that is closely aligned with questions of social identity, self-development in contexts of intimate relationships, and social solidarity. Thalos argues that whether a person is free (in any context) depends upon a certain relationship of fit between that agent’s conception of themselves (both present and future), on the one hand, and the facts of their circumstances, on the other. Since relationships of fit are broadly logical, freedom is a logic—it is the logic of fit between one’s aspirations and one’s circumstances, what Thalos calls the logic of agency. The logic of agency, once fleshed out, becomes a broadly social and political theory that encompasses one’s self-conceptions as well as how these self-conceptions are generated, together with how they fit with the circumstances of one’s life. The theory of freedom proposed in this volume is fundamentally a political one.
Author | : Michael Mann |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 845 |
Release | : 2012-09-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107031184 |
This second volume deals with power relations between the Industrial Revolution and the First World War.
Author | : Bruce David Baum |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780802083159 |
Baum recovers lost dimensions of Mill's thought, and in so doing, contributes to a critical sociology of freedom for our our time like workers' co-operatives & women's rights.
Author | : Gene Sharp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199829896 |
Sharp's Dictionary of Power and Struggle is a groundbreaking book by the "godfather of nonviolent resistance." In nearly 1,000 entries, the Dictionary defines those ideologies, political systems, strategies, methods, and concepts that form the core of nonviolent action as it has occurred throughout history and across the globe, providing much-needed clarification of language that is often mired in confusion.
Author | : Yoshikazu Sakamoto |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : International cooperation |
ISBN | : 9780677219905 |
"This book will give the reader a perspective into the core theory and practice of data mining and knowledge discovery (DM & KD). Its chapters combine many theoretical foundations for various DM & KD methods, and they present an array of examples - many of which are drawn from real-life applications. Most of the theoretical developments discussed are accompanied by an extensive empirical analysis, which should give the reader both a deep theoretical and practical insight into the subjects covered." "The intended audience for this book includes graduate students studying data mining who have some background in mathematical logic and discrete optimization as well as researchers and practitioners in the same area."--BOOK JACKET.