Embodiments of Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Embodiments of Power write by Gary B. Cohen. This book was released on 2008-07-01. Embodiments of Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The period of the baroque (late sixteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries) saw extensive reconfiguration of European cities and their public spaces. Yet, this transformation cannot be limited merely to signifying a style of art, architecture, and decor. Rather, the dynamism, emotionality, and potential for grandeur that were inherent in the baroque style developed in close interaction with the need and desire of post-Reformation Europeans to find visual expression for the new political, confessional, and societal realities. Highly illustrated, this volume examines these complex interrelationships among architecture and art, power, religion, and society from a wide range of viewpoints and localities. From Krakow to Madrid and from Naples to Dresden, cities were reconfigured visually as well as politically and socially. Power, in both its political and architectural guises, had to be negotiated among constituents ranging from monarchs and high churchmen to ordinary citizens. Within this process, both rulers and ruled were transformed: Europe left behind the last vestiges of the medieval and arrived on the threshold of the modern.
Embodiments of Power
Embodiments of Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Embodiments of Power write by Bradley A. Finson. This book was released on 2003. Embodiments of Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Forms of Power
Forms of Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forms of Power write by Gianfranco Poggi. This book was released on 2016-04-07. Forms of Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Political power is often viewed as the sole embodiment of 'socialpower', even while we recognize that social power manifests itselfin different forms and institutional spheres. This new book byGianfranco Poggi suggests that the three principal forms of socialpower - the economic, the normative/ideological and the political -are based on a group's privileged access to and control overdifferent resources. Against this general background, Poggi shows how variousembodiments of normative/ideological and economic power have bothmade claims on political power (considered chiefly as it isembodied in the state) and responded in turn to the latter'sattempt to control or to instrumentalize them. The embodiment ofideological power in religion and in modern intellectual elites isexamined in the context of their relations to the state. Poggi alsoexplores both the demands laid upon the state by the business eliteand the impact of the state's fiscal policies on the economicsphere. The final chapter considers the relationship between astate's political class and its military elite, which tends to usethe resource of organized coercion for its own ends. Forms of Power will be of interest to students and scholars ofsociology and politics.
Double Discourse
Double Discourse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Double Discourse write by Eduardo Kairuz. This book was released on 2011. Double Discourse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Embodiments
Embodiments - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Embodiments write by James R. Mensch. This book was released on 2009-08-10. Embodiments available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How does the body politic reflect the nature of human embodiment? To pursue this question in a new and productive way, James Mensch employs a methodology consistent with the fact of our embodiment; he uses Merleau-Ponty’s concept of "intertwining"—the presence of one’s self in the world and of the world in one’s self—to understand the ideas that define political life. Mensch begins his inquiry by developing a philosophical anthropology based on this concept. He then applies the results of his investigation to the relations of power, authority, freedom, and sovereignty in public life. This involves confronting a line of interpretation, stretching from Hobbes to Agamben, which sees violence as both initiating and preserving the social contract. To contest this interpretation, Mensch argues against its presupposition, which is to equate freedom with sovereignty over others. He does so by understanding political freedom in terms of embodiment—in particular, in terms of the finitude and interdependence that our embodiment entails. Freedom, conceived in these terms, is understood as the gift of others. As a function of our dependence on others, it cannot exist apart from them. To show how public space and civil society presuppose this interdependence is the singular accomplishment of Embodiments. It accomplishes a phenomenological grounding for a new type of political philosophy.
