Democracy and Domination - Technologies of Integration and the Rise of Collective Power

Informationen zum Autor Andrew M. Koch is professor of political philosophy at Appalachian State University. Klappentext Drawing on the genealogical tradition developed by Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault,Democracy and Domination argues that from the time of Ancient Greece to the present, the collective and centralizing aspects of power have been expanding in the Western world. Modern democracy should be seen as a system of domination that assists in the coordination and expansion of collective power. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter 1. The Study of Domination Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Athens and Rome: Dissemination, Identity, and the Rise of Central Power Chapter 4 Chapter 3. The Middle Ages: Domination and Administration in an Age of Illiteracy Chapter 5 Chapter 4. The Birth of the Nation-State and the Rise of Humanism Chapter 6 Chapter 5. Democracy, Industrial Production, and the Rise of National Power Chapter 7 Chapter 6. Collective Power in the Twenty-first Century Chapter 8 Concluding Remarks

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• Authors: Andrew M. Koch, Andrew M. Zeddy Koch, Amanda Gail Zeddy
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.2009
• EAN: 9780739122150
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-2215-0
• No. of pages: 262
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, ancient philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500