Power
Book description
The third edition of this seminal work includes the original text, first published in 1974, the updates and reflections from the second edition and two groundbreaking new chapters. Power: A Radical View assesses the main debates about how to conceptualize and study power, including the influential contributions of Michel Foucault.…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Power as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book was a revelation.
I first encountered it when the original 1974 edition was assigned in an undergraduate course on social movement politics. I have never looked back.
Lukes’ three-dimensional view of power, and especially his two and three-dimensional views, make visible the power relations that are at work in areas where power does not seem to be active at all.
This has turned out to be an amazingly helpful way to look at power relations in the modern world. Lukes added two chapters to update his original text in the second edition.
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