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Power : oppression, subservience, and resistance /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One; I Concepts of Power; A General Notion of Power; The Concept of Power-Over; Intentionally Changing the Behavior of Others; Exercising Power to Change the Behavior of Subordinates; Adversely Affecting the Interests of Subordinates; Human Interests; Power, Passivity, and Influence; Social Power; Major Uses of Power-Over; II Thrasymachus (ca. 459-c. 400 BC) and Socrates (ca. 470-c. 399 BC); III Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527); Free yourself from the imperatives of conventional morality
- Recognize that the masses are concerned only with positive resultsUse cool, dispassionate reason to assess opportunities and possibilities, and to select your methods; Cultivate the loyalty of the masses; Accept the fact that human beings are biologically inclined toward wrongdoing; Restrain your erotic and material lusts; Keep your behavior in tune with the times; Establish strong armies and sound laws; Gain knowledge of war; Operate within the real as it is; Foster a good reputation, earn respect, but act expediently; Understand the critical ends of the state
- Remember: It is better to be feared than to be loved, but avoid being hatedDevelop the qualities of the lion and the fox; Be decisive, avoid neutrality; Identify and hire trustworthy ministers; Avoid sycophants; Distinguish between the art of securing and that of preserving power; Learn the recipe for political success; Machiavelli as Patriot; Machiavelli as Ironist; Machiavelli as Realist; Machiavelli as Roman Moralist; Machiavelli as Political Subversive; IV Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900); The Will to Power; Perfectionism; Happiness and the Last Man; Value and Individualism
- Power in ContextThe Power of Slave Morality; Part Two; V Stoicism: Overcoming Oppression through Attitude; Background Views; Preferences and Goods; Emotions; Stoic Power; Limitations of Stoicism; VI Georg W.F. Hegel (1770-1831): The Dynamic of Dyadic Relationships of Power; Stage One: The Incipient Ego; Stage Two: Desire and Elementary Self-Consciousness; Stage Three: Beyond Animals; Stage Four: Desire for Recognition; Stage Five: The Initial Encounter; Stage Six: Stalemate and Confusion; Stage Seven: Life-and-Death Struggle; Stage Eight: The Possibilities and Their Results
- Stage Nine: The Lordship-Bondage RelationshipStage Ten: Unequal Recognition; Stage Eleven: The Reversal; Stage Twelve: The Power of Labor; Stage Thirteen: The Climax; Hegelian Power; VII Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937); Human Nature; Exploitation; Economic Base and Ideological Superstructure; False Consciousness; Limitations of Marxism; Ideological Hegemony; Marxism and Power; Part Three; VIII Michel Foucault (1926-1984): The Ubiquity of Power; First Renderings of Power; Later Refinements; Evaluating Foucault