Theorizing power / by Jonathan Hearn.

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10. identity and personhood: -- Introduction -- Shifting discourses of power and social identity -- A problem of knowledge? -- An ecological model of identity -- Conclusion -- 11. Conclusion: To and over, is and ought: -- Introduction -- A useful concept -- Stories about power -- A qualified ´ought´.

Foucault: power/knowledge -- Actor-networks, ´realrationalität!´ and the ghost of Machiavelli -- Bourdieu: the practice histories -- On language and culture -- Conclusion -- 6. Evolutionary approaches: -- Introduction -- Energy, technology and evolution -- Two philosophic histories -- Modes, forms and sources of power -- Conclusion -- Part III. Investigating power: -- 7. Domination, authority and legitimacy in liberal society: -- Introduction -- State, economy, and the ´memorable alliance´ -- Civil society -- Public and private -- Competition as legitimation -- Conclusion -- 8. Religion and morality: -- introduction -- Human limits and explanations of religion -- Religion as reflecting the social constitution of power relations -- Relations as a medium of power struggles -- Meaning eclipses power -- Power and morality -- Conclusion -- 9. Gender, power and patriarchy: -- Introduction -- Comparative perspectives -- Public, private and patriarchy -- Feminism and power -- Conclusion --^

Part I. Conceptualizing power: -- 1. Introducing key issues: -- Introduction -- Physical versus social power -- Power ´to´ versus power ´over´ -- Asymmetrical versus balanced power -- Power as structures versus agents -- Actual versus potential power -- Conclusion -- 2. Meet the family- domination, authority and legitimacy: -- Introduction -- The ´dominant´ academic discourse on power -- Bringing authority and legitimacy back in -- Max Weber´s complicated legacy -- Recapitulation -- Part II. Theorizing power: -- 3. European sources: -- Introduction -- Early modern harbingers: Machiavelli and Hobbes -- Theorists of modernity: Marx, Durkheim and Weber -- Return to Italy: classical elitism and Gramsci -- Conclusion -- 4. American debates: -- Introduction -- Power: community structures and national elites -- The power of positive function -- Power hides its face -- Conclusion -- 5. Epistemological approaches: -- Introduction -- Barnes: self-fulfulling prophecies --^