Rethinking Power

The authors represent the cutting edge of current research into the concept of power. Among the topics discussed are power in social theory, feminist conceptions of power, power and sexuality, modes of oppression and domination, the significance of Foucault's theory of power, and power in market transactions. Included are contributions by Amelie Oksenberg Rorty, Terence Ball, Jeffrey Isaac, Thomas McCarthy, Gayatri Spivak, Iris Marion Young, Jean Baker Miller, Nancy C. M. Hartsock, Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis, and Roger S. Gottlieb.

About the author

Thomas E. Wartenberg is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Mount Holyoke College. He is the author of The Forms of Power: From Domination to Transformation.

Product details

• Assisted by: Thomas E Wartenberg (Editor), Thomas E. Wartenberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1992
• EAN: 9780791408827
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0882-7
• No. of pages: 353
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 231 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Series: Suny Series, Radical Social &; Suny Series, Radical Social &; Suny Radical Social and Politi
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education