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Reading this book is an education in itself. Power may not be the key to understanding all social life in the way Russell ambitiously tried to show, but it certainly explains a lot, and Russell's beautiful prose convincingly weaves together the various types of power to give a powerful theory indeed, all backed up with brilliantly concise historical example.
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Power; A New Social Analysis. BY BERTRAND RUSSELL. (New York: W. W. Norton and Company. 1938. Pp. 305. $3.00.) This volume is a study of the family of power. The author brings to it intellectual distinction and achievement of a high order. He brings the prestige of a colorful and stormy personal career, ranging from opposition
720 ratings59 reviews. Power: A New Social Analysis is a work in social philosophy written by Bertrand Russell. Power, for Russell, is one's ability to achieve goals. In particular, Russell has in mind social power, that is, power over people. The volume contains a number of arguments. However, four themes have a central role in the overall work.
It follows that, in a social system in which power is open to all, the posts which confer power will, as a rule, be occupied by men who differ from the average in being exceptionally power-loving. Love of power, though one of the strongest of human motives, is very unevenly distributed, and is limited by various other motives, such as love of ...
Feb 12, 2020 · 206 pages ; 19 cm The impulse to power -- Leaders and followers -- The forms of power -- Priestly power -- Kingly power -- Naked power -- Revolutionary power -- Economic power -- Power over opinion -- Creeds as sources of power -- The biology of organizations -- Powers and forms of governments -- Organizations and the individual -- Competition -- Power and moral codes -- Power philosophies ...
Power: A new social analysis. By: Bertrand Russell. Material type: Text Publication details: Routledge-Taylor and Francis Group 2010 Description: 258 ISBN: 9780415325073. Subject (s): A ; analysis ; new ; Power: ; social Phil British Isles. Phil British Isles. Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title.
In Power: A New Social Analysis,1 Bertrand Russell identifies the desire for power as the fundamental motive in the social sciences. Moreover, he set out to prove that power is
