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Power : a new social analysis / Bertrand Russell ; with a new preface by Samuel Brittan ; with an introduction by Kirk Willis.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge classicsAnalytics: Show analyticsPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004Description: xxv, 258 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415325072
  • 9780415325073
  • 0203506537
  • 9780203506530
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.011 22
LOC classification:
  • JC330 .R87 2004
Contents:
1. The Impulse to Power -- 2. Leaders and Followers -- 3. The Forms of Power -- 4. Priestly Power -- 5. Kingly Power -- 6. Naked Power -- 7. Revolutionary Power -- 8. Economic Power -- 9. Power over Opinion -- 10. Creeds as Sources of Power -- 11. The Biology of Organisations -- 12. Powers and Forms of Governments -- 13. Organisations and the Individual -- 14. Competition -- 15. Power and Moral Codes -- 16. Power Philosophies -- 17. The Ethics of Power -- 18. The Taming of Power.
Review: "The key to human nature that Marx found in wealth and Freud in sex, Bertrand Russell finds in power. Power, he argues, is man's ultimate goal, and is in its many guises the single most important element in the development of any society. Written in the late 1930s when Europe was being torn apart by extremist ideologies and the world was on the brink of war, Russell set out to found a 'new science', one which would make sense of the traumatic events of the day and offer an explanation for those that would follow." "The result was Power, a remarkable book which Russell regarded as one of the most important of his long career. Countering the totalitarian desire to dominate, Russell shows how political enlightenment and human understanding can lead to peace - his book is a passionate call for independence of mind and a celebration of the instinctive joy of human life."--BOOK JACKET.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 320.011 RUS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A289554B

Originally published: London : Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation, 1996. With new pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The Impulse to Power -- 2. Leaders and Followers -- 3. The Forms of Power -- 4. Priestly Power -- 5. Kingly Power -- 6. Naked Power -- 7. Revolutionary Power -- 8. Economic Power -- 9. Power over Opinion -- 10. Creeds as Sources of Power -- 11. The Biology of Organisations -- 12. Powers and Forms of Governments -- 13. Organisations and the Individual -- 14. Competition -- 15. Power and Moral Codes -- 16. Power Philosophies -- 17. The Ethics of Power -- 18. The Taming of Power.

"The key to human nature that Marx found in wealth and Freud in sex, Bertrand Russell finds in power. Power, he argues, is man's ultimate goal, and is in its many guises the single most important element in the development of any society. Written in the late 1930s when Europe was being torn apart by extremist ideologies and the world was on the brink of war, Russell set out to found a 'new science', one which would make sense of the traumatic events of the day and offer an explanation for those that would follow." "The result was Power, a remarkable book which Russell regarded as one of the most important of his long career. Countering the totalitarian desire to dominate, Russell shows how political enlightenment and human understanding can lead to peace - his book is a passionate call for independence of mind and a celebration of the instinctive joy of human life."--BOOK JACKET.

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