Infrasocial Power - Lorenzo Infantino

Infrasocial Power

Political Dimensions of Human Action
Buch | Hardcover
XII, 287 Seiten
2020 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-45080-9 (ISBN)
90,94 inkl. MwSt

Building from the level of individual interaction, this book intends to shed light on what the author terms "infrasocial power" and the relation between this individual-actor oriented level and public power. In overviewing the origins of power, the author allows for the  disaggregation of the social fabric, thus making it possible to: 1) isolate the "sequence" in which the phenomenon of superordination and subordination materialises; 2) identify the institutional "instruments" which can be used to limit infrasocial power; 3) discriminate between a social position achieved through engagement with others (and what we are capable of doing for them) from one occupied by means of force and deception; 4) explain the birth and function of public power; and 5) analyze the consequences produced by different political regimes.


Lorenzo Infantino is Professor of Philosophy of the Social Sciences at LUISS-Guido Carli in Rome, Italy. He is the author of Individualism in Modern Thought (1998, 2014), reviewed by the late Kenneth Minogue on the first page of the Times Literary Supplement , and Ignorance and Liberty (2003). His research circulates around social and political theory, intellectual history, political philosophy, political economy and sociological theory.

1. Society and Power.- 2. The reshaping of man and the birth of totalitarian power.- 3. The conditions enabling individual choice and the limitation of power.-  4. Pareto and Machiavellianism: the problem and the errors.- 5. Voluntary cooperation and unlimited democracy.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo XII, 287 p.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Gewicht 547 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeine Soziologie
Schlagworte Competition • Cultural Evolution • Economic Sociology • history of ideas • Open Society • Political Philosophy • Resource Scarcity • Totalitarianism • Utilitarianism • voluntary cooperation
ISBN-10 3-030-45080-5 / 3030450805
ISBN-13 978-3-030-45080-9 / 9783030450809
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