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Record Nr.

UNINA9910407711903321

Autore

Infantino Lorenzo

Titolo

Infrasocial Power [[electronic resource] ] : Political Dimensions of Human Action / / by Lorenzo Infantino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-45081-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 pages)

Disciplina

658.30096

Soggetti

Social sciences—Philosophy

Philosophy and social sciences

Political theory

Political sociology

Sociology

Social Theory

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Political Theory

Political Sociology

Sociological Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Society and Power -- 2. The reshaping of man and the birth of totalitarian power -- 3. The conditions enabling individual choice and the limitation of power -- 4. Pareto and Machiavellianism: the problem and the errors -- 5. Voluntary cooperation and unlimited democracy.

Sommario/riassunto

Building from the level of individual interaction, this book intends to shed light on what the author terms "infrasocial power" and the relation between this individual-actor oriented level and public power. In overviewing the origins of power, the author allows for the disaggregation of the social fabric, thus making it possible to: 1) isolate the “sequence” in which the phenomenon of superordination and subordination materialises; 2) identify the institutional “instruments” which can be used to limit infrasocial power; 3) discriminate between a



social position achieved through engagement with others (and what we are capable of doing for them) from one occupied by means of force and deception; 4) explain the birth and function of public power; and 5) analyze the consequences produced by different political regimes.