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The modern prince and the modern sage : transforming power and freedom /

Ever since the Renaissance in the thirteenth century, the 'prince' has been the dominant archetype of 'being' and 'becoming'. Power and politics have provided the modern world with determinant frames of self-constitution and social emancipation, along with a singular de...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Giri, Ananta Kumar
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks : SAGA Publications, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Reconstituting Power and Freedom: Modernity and Beyond; 1
  • Modernity and the Reconstitution of the Realm of the Political; 2
  • Play of Power and Struggle for Freedom in Renaissance Humanism; 3
  • Political Symbolism or How to Stay on the Surface; 4
  • Control of Power through Freedom; 5
  • Power of Modernity and the Tail of the Devil; 6
  • Rethinking Power; 7
  • Metamorphoses of Power; Part II: Beyond the Modern Prince: Varieties of Struggles and New Intimations.