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On the Concept of Power - Possibility, Necessity, Politics (Hardcover)
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On the Concept of Power - Possibility, Necessity, Politics (Hardcover)
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"Power" is the central organizing concept for politics. However,
despite decades of debate across political science, sociology, and
philosophy, scholars have not yet settled on a proper definition of
power. Existing definitions fail because they are either circular
or so far removed from the ordinary, quotidien meaning of power
that they cannot credibly claim to be about the same concept.
Political science has looked at how power works, but according to
Guido Parietti, fails to define what power means. In On the Concept
of Power, Parietti proposes a more proper definition of power-as
the condition of having available possibilities and representing
them as such-and examines its implications for the study of
politics, both empirical and normative. By neglecting the category
of possibility, significant portions of political science and
philosophy become incapable of conceptualizing power, and therefore
politics. Specifically, Parietti asserts that the main failure of
political science is in obscuring power's correspondence to the
category of possibility in favor of causality and probability;
political philosophy, on the other hand, tends to prioritize
various forms of a teleologically oriented normativity. All these
approaches end up discarding possibility in favor of oriented
potentialities, ultimately anchored to various forms of necessity,
and are therefore incapable of properly conceptualizing power in
accordance with its meaning in ordinary language. Bringing together
different disciplinary discourses, On the Concept of Power
concludes by examining the conditions for power to have an actual
referent; in other words, for politics to appear in our world. In
this original and ambitious critique of the prevailing approaches
to political theory and political science, Parietti examines what
it means to have power and what may endanger our access to and
exercise of it.
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