Power is a pervasive phenomenon yet there is little consensus on
what it is and how it should be understood. In this book the
cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han develops a fresh and original
perspective on the nature of power, shedding new light on this key
feature of social and political life. Power is commonly defined as
a causal relation: an individual's power is the cause that produces
a change of behaviour in someone else against the latter's will.
Han rejects this view, arguing that power is better understood as a
mediation between ego and alter which creates a complex array of
reciprocal interdependencies. Power can also be exercised not only
against the other but also within and through the other, and this
involves a much higher degree of mediation. This perspective
enables us to see that power and freedom are not opposed to one
another but are manifestations of the same power, differing only in
the degree of mediation. This highly original account of power will
be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy and of
social, political and cultural theory, as well as to anyone seeking
to understand the many ways in which power shapes our lives today.
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