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The Terms of Order - Political Science and the Myth of Leadership (Paperback)
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The Terms of Order - Political Science and the Myth of Leadership (Paperback)
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Do we live in basically orderly societies that occasionally erupt
into violent conflict, or do we fail to perceive the constancy of
violence and disorder in our societies? In this classic book,
originally published in 1980, Cedric J. Robinson contends that our
perception of political order is an illusion, maintained in part by
Western political and social theorists who depend on the idea of
leadership as a basis for describing and prescribing social order.
Using a variety of critical approaches in his analysis, Robinson
synthesizes elements of psychoanalysis, structuralism, Marxism,
classical and neoclassical political philosophy, and cultural
anthropology in order to argue that Western thought on leadership
is mythological rather than rational. He then presents examples of
historically developed ""stateless"" societies with social
organizations that suggest conceptual alternatives to the ways
political order has been conceived in the West. Examining Western
thought from the vantage point of a people only marginally
integrated into Western institutions and intellectual traditions,
Robinson's perspective radically critiques fundamental ideas of
leadership and order.
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