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What is Power? by Byung-Chul Han; Daniel Steuer is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
What is What is Power? about?
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.<br><br> 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
Who reads What is Power??
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Byung-Chul Han; Daniel Steuer
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781509516094
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Sociology, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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