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Record Nr.

UNINA9910407711903321

Autore

Infantino Lorenzo

Titolo

Infrasocial Power : 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

300

Soggetti

Social sciences - Philosophy

Philosophy and social sciences

Political science

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.