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Auteur(s) : Parietti, Guido
Titre(s) : On the concept of power [Texte imprimé] : possibility, necessity, politics / Guido Parietti ; foreword by Steven Lukes
Publication : New York : Oxford university press, copyright 2022
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XV-253 pages) ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 231-250. Index
""Power" is a central concept for politics, arguably defining the political domain
as such. However, despite decades of debate across political science, sociology, and
philosophy, a proper definition of power is still to be had. Existing definitions
fail because they are either circular or so far removed from the ordinary meaning
of "power" that they cannot credibly claim to be about the same concept. This book,
employing an Arendtian approach to conceptual analysis, provides a more proper definition
- power denotes the condition of having available possibilities and representing them
as such - and examines its implications for the study of politics, both empirical
and normative. From the vantage point of a proper definition, the book shows how,
by neglecting the category of possibility, significant portions of political science
and philosophy become incapable of conceptualizing power, and therefore politics.
The main issue with political science is the increasingly exclusive focus on causal
and probabilistic regularities; political philosophy, on the other hand, tends to
prioritize various forms of a teleologically oriented normativity. Both of these approaches
end up discarding possibility in favor of necessity, and are therefore unable to properly
conceptualize power. Finally, bringing together the different disciplinary discourses,
the book examines the conditions for the concept of power to have an actual referent,
which is to say: for politics to appear in our world"
Sujet(s) : Pouvoir (sciences sociales)
Philosophie politique
Indice(s) Dewey :
320.01 (23e éd.) = Science politique - Philosophie et théorie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780197607480. - ISBN 0197607489. - ISBN 9780197607503 (erroné). - ISBN 9780197607510
(erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb471095783
Notice n° :
FRBNF47109578
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