Power in modernity : agency relations and the creative destruction of the king's two bodies / Isaac Ariail Reed.

"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 of power-up...

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Main Author: Reed, Isaac (Isaac Ariail) (Author)
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
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Physical Description:xi, 270 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a 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 
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