The Legitimation of PowerPolitical theory has undergone a remarkable development in recent years. A systematic study of legitimacy within social science, the book starts as a critique of Weber and examines the link betwen a social-scientific approach and the various philosophical traditions of theorizing about legitimacy. |
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Page 110
... position that transcends , the estab- lished power relations , if they are to develop the impetus to transform them . What we are talking of is the possibility of a legitimacy , not that is entirely asocial or ahistorical , but that is ...
... position that transcends , the estab- lished power relations , if they are to develop the impetus to transform them . What we are talking of is the possibility of a legitimacy , not that is entirely asocial or ahistorical , but that is ...
Page 112
... position , or conceal that it is a position of power at all . From such a standpoint the activity of an emancipatory movement must be judged Utopian and the project of the normative philos- opher as fanciful . They may help to bring ...
... position , or conceal that it is a position of power at all . From such a standpoint the activity of an emancipatory movement must be judged Utopian and the project of the normative philos- opher as fanciful . They may help to bring ...
Page 247
... position of equality prior to the establishment of all power relations ; nor as a hypothetical device for imagining what rules or principles we would agree to if we were in such a position . Both are ahistorical : the former , because ...
... position of equality prior to the establishment of all power relations ; nor as a hypothetical device for imagining what rules or principles we would agree to if we were in such a position . Both are ahistorical : the former , because ...
Contents
Power and its Need of Legitimation | 42 |
The Normative Structure of Legitimacy | 64 |
The Social Construction of Legitimacy | 100 |
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