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The Circular Structure of Power - Politics, Identity, Community (Paperback, New)
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The Circular Structure of Power - Politics, Identity, Community (Paperback, New)
Series: Phronesis
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Few concepts in social theory have been used so extravagantly in
recent years as the notion of power. Yet, despite its inflated
presence, the term is still unclear and under-theorized. In The
Circular Structure of Power, Torben Dyrberg rises to the challenge
of conceptualizing power through a philosophical examination of its
uses in contemporary social theory. Drawing on the insights of
Michel Foucault, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Dyrberg brings
this continental tradition into a creative dialogue with the
Anglo-American tradition represented by figures such as Steven
Lukes, William Connolly, Peter Bachrach and Morton Baratz.
Moreover, Dyrberg moves from such abstract considerations to their
implications for political and democratic theory through an
examination of the work of thinkers as diverse as Robert Dahl, John
Rawls, Jurgen Habermas and Nicos Poulantzas. Simultaneously
engaging with and defying many of the dominant definitions of
power, Torben Dyrberg destabilizes and undermines the conventional
distinctions and polarities through which power is usually
understood. The new perspective offered to us by this investigation
is one which goes beyond the assumption that power can be based on
and derived from either agency or structure, as if these categories
were not somehow constituted by power.
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