Modernity And Power
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Modernity And Power
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Author : Frank Ninkovich
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1994-11-15
Modernity And Power written by Frank Ninkovich and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-11-15 with Political Science categories.
Modernity and Power provides a fresh conceptual overview of twentieth-century United States foreign policy, from the Roosevelt and Taft administrations through the presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson. Beginning with Woodrow Wilson, American leaders gradually abandoned the idea of international relations as a game of geopolitical interplays, basing their diplomacy instead on a symbolic opposition between "world public opinion" and the forces of destruction and chaos. Frank Ninkovich provocatively links this policy shift to the rise of a distinctly modernist view of history. To emphasize the central role of symbolism and ideological assumptions in twentieth-century American statesmanship, Ninkovich focuses on the domino theory—a theory that departed radically from classic principles of political realism by sanctioning intervention in world regions with few financial or geographic claims on the national interest. Ninkovich insightfully traces the development of this global strategy from its first appearance early in the century through the Vietnam war. Throughout the book, Ninkovich draws on primary sources to recover the worldview of the policy makers. He carefully assesses the coherence of their views rather than judge their actions against "objective" realities. Offering a new alternative to realpolitic and economic explanations of foreign policy, Modernity and Power will change the way we think about the history of U.S. international relations.
Theories Of Power And Domination
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Author : Angus Stewart
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2001-03-20
Theories Of Power And Domination written by Angus Stewart and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-20 with Social Science categories.
Power and domination are central concepts in social science yet, up to now, they have been undertheorized. This wide-ranging book guides students through the complexities and implications of both concepts. It provides systematic accounts of current debates about the dynamics and rationale of state power in an era of globalization, social citizenship and the significance of social movements. The contributions of Parsons, Giddens, Foucault, Mann, Arendt, Habermas and Castells are clearly set out and critically assessed.
Power In Modernity
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Author : Isaac Ariail Reed
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2020-03-25
Power In Modernity written by Isaac Ariail Reed and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-25 with Social Science categories.
In Power in Modernity, Isaac Ariail Reed proposes a bold new theory of power that describes overlapping networks of delegation and domination. Chains of power and their representation, linking together groups and individuals across time and space, create a vast network of intersecting alliances, subordinations, redistributions, and violent exclusions. Reed traces the common action of “sending someone else to do something for you” as it expands outward into the hierarchies that control territories, persons, artifacts, minds, and money. He mobilizes this theory to investigate the onset of modernity in the Atlantic world, with a focus on rebellion, revolution, and state formation in colonial North America, the early American Republic, the English Civil War, and French Revolution. Modernity, Reed argues, dismantled the “King’s Two Bodies”—the monarch’s physical body and his ethereal, sacred second body that encompassed the body politic—as a schema of representation for forging power relations. Reed’s account then offers a new understanding of the democratic possibilities and violent exclusions forged in the name of “the people,” as revolutionaries sought new ways to secure delegation, build hierarchy, and attack alterity. Reconsidering the role of myth in modern politics, Reed proposes to see the creative destruction and eternal recurrence of the King’s Two Bodies as constitutive of the modern attitude, and thus as a new starting point for critical theory. Modernity poses in a new way an eternal human question: what does it mean to be the author of one’s own actions?
Power In Modernity
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Author : Isaac Ariail Reed
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Power In Modernity written by Isaac Ariail Reed and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Civilization, Modern categories.
"Isaac Reed's Power in Modernity aims to be a major contribution to social theory. It is a bold and innovative theoretical reimagining of power. Drawing on an eclectic range of ideas from across the humanities and social sciences, Reed rethinks the fundamentals of sociological theorizing of power-upsetting canonical traditions and remaking them with insights from poststructuralism, postcolonial theory, and critical race studies. First, Reed conceptualizes power as having three aspects: relational, discursive, and performative. He explores these aspects in relation to three different kinds of social actors-rector, agent, and other-and their connections. In essence, Reed brings power in the actions of individuals into relation with a wide range of institutional circumstances of power while neatly finessing the outmoded agency/structure binary. The result is a framework for the analysis of power that allows us to see both its sometimes fragile and precarious character, as well as its more typical stability and durability. We also get a window onto the episodic performances of power and how they institutionalize or unravel social orders. Power in Modernity is sure to be of interest to political sociologists and social theorists especially, and it will serve sociologists and other social scientists well who are interested in how power operates across many different social situations"--
Transition To Modernity
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Author : John A. Hall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Transition To Modernity written by John A. Hall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Civilization, Modern categories.
Transition To Modernity
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Author : John A. Hall
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1992-01-16
Transition To Modernity written by John A. Hall and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-16 with Social Science categories.
This set of essays is concerned with the explanation of large scale social change. Concentration is on the social stagnation characteristic of agrarian circumstances, the conditions for exit from that world, and the varied social orders that inhabit, sometimes precariously, the modern world community. The distinguished contributors from archaeology, anthropology, sociology, economic history and philosophy, have all been stimulated by the work of Ernest Gellner, and the essays are in dialogue with his view of our social condition.
Modernity And Postmodernity
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Author : Gerard Delanty
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2000-04-19
Modernity And Postmodernity written by Gerard Delanty and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-19 with Social Science categories.
This accessible and comprehensive overview of the main issues on the modernity-postmodernity controversy is the first clear-sighted book on the subject. It surveys modern social theory, from Kant to Weber with economy and masterly precision. And evaluates the work of the Frankfurt School, Arendy, Strauss, Luhmann, Habermas, Heller, Castoriadis and Touraine, before moving on to consider the approaches of the leading writers on postmodenrity: Lyotard, Vattimo, Derrida, Foucault and Jameson. The result is a new way of conceptualizing the modernity-postmodernity debate, and an exciting new approach to the roots of contemporary social theory.
Power Culture And Modernity In Nigeria
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Author : Oluwatoyin Oduntan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-05-23
Power Culture And Modernity In Nigeria written by Oluwatoyin Oduntan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-23 with History categories.
In this book, Oluwatoyin Oduntan offers a critical intervention in the scholarly fields of Nigerian, and West African history, as well as towards understanding the intellectual ideas by which modern African society was formed, and how it functions. The book traces the shifting dynamics between various segments of the African elite by critically analyzing existing historical accounts, traditions and archival documents. First, it explores the lost world of native intellectual thoughts as the perspective through which Africans experienced the colonial encounter. It thereby makes Africans central to contemporary debates about the meanings and legitimacy of colonial empires, and about the African cultural experience. It shows that the resettlement of liberated and Westernized Africans in Abeokuta and after them, European missionaries, merchants and colonial agents from the 1840s, did not dismantle preexisting power structures and social relations. Rather, educated Africans and Europeans entered into and added their voices to ongoing processes of defining culture and power. By rendering a continuing narrative of change and adaptation which connects the pre-colonial to the post-colonial, Power, Culture and Modernity in Nigeria leads Africanist scholarship in new directions to rethink colonial impact and uncover the total creative sites of changes by which African societies were formed.
Power In Modern Societies
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Author : Marvin E. Olsen
language : en
Publisher: Westview Press
Release Date : 1993-01-31
Power In Modern Societies written by Marvin E. Olsen and has been published by Westview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-31 with Social Science categories.
This revised edition of "Power in Societies" contains writings on the exercise of power in contemporary modern society. The essays cover four broad topics: power in social organization, theoretical perspectives on power, national power structures, and power and the state.
The Politics To Come
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Author : Arthur Bradley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
The Politics To Come written by Arthur Bradley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Messiah categories.
This title considers the meaning of liberal democratic modernity at a moment when its future has never been less certain. "The Politics to Come" brings together an international collection of thinkers to consider the meaning of liberal democratic modernity at a moment when its future has never been less certain. It examines the explosive threats the liberal order confronts today: financial meltdown, religious extremism, environmental catastrophe. Yet, it also seeks to place these - singularly modern - crises within a much longer history. For the contributors to this collection, it is.