Power in modernity agency relations and the creative destruction of the king's two bodies
"Isaac Reed's Power in Modernity aims to be a major contribution to social theory. It is a bold and innovative theoretical reimagining of power. Drawing on an eclectic range of ideas from across the humanities and social sciences, Reed rethinks the fundamentals of sociological theorizing o...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago ; London
University of Chicago Press
2020 ©2020
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Power. Rector, actor, other ; Agency relations ; Dimensions of delegation and domination ; Binding performances
- Modernity. Agency, alterity and the two bodies of the king ; Performing the people's two bodies in the early American Republic ; Within and without the king's two bodies in London and Paris
- Power in modernity. Modernity as the creative destruction of the king's two bodies
- Acknowledgments
- Index