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What is Power?

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

What is Power?

By Byung-Chul Han

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About the book

Power is a pervasive phenomenon yet there is little consensus on what it is and how it should be understood. In this book the cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han develops a fresh and original perspective on the nature of power, shedding new light on this key feature of social and political life. Power is commonly defined as a causal relation: an individual's power is the cause that produces a change of behaviour in someone else against the latter's will. Han rejects this view, arguing that power is...Show more

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9781509516100

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Polity Press

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2018

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