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Recognizing Authority, Acknowledging Power

Concepts of control in Kojeve and Arendt, Part III

February 2, 2018 • by Eli Weiner

Below is the final segment of a three-part series adapted from a final paper for Sociology of Power and Authority at UVA. Having worked through the writings of both Kojève and Arendt, each of which endeavored to provide a thorough grounding in a comprehensive schematic of authority and power, it is ...

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Recognizing Authority, Acknowledging Power

Concepts of control in Kojeve and Arendt, Part II

January 31, 2018 • by Eli Weiner

Below is the second segment of a three-part series adapted from a final paper for Sociology of Power and Authority at UVA. While Kojève offered us a fully formed taxonomy of authority, complete with four pure types of authority and their attendant legitimating theories, Hannah Arendt in her text On Violence, published ...

Politics

Recognizing Authority, Acknowledging Power

Concepts of control in Kojeve and Arendt, Part I

January 29, 2018 • by Eli Weiner

Below is the first segment of a three-part series adapted from a final paper for Sociology of Power and Authority at UVA. The specific characteristics of political authority, political power, and political violence have only grown more complex in the modern era, and the lessons offered by philosophers of the past ...

Politics

Sociology of Power and Authority

Fall 2017 at University of Virginia

January 23, 2018 • by Isaac Ariail Reed

The Sociology of Power and Authority was offered in Fall 2017 at the University of Virginia. It was an upper-division undergraduate seminar with 20 students, meeting for an hour and fifteen minutes twice a week. On the first day of the course, several students revealed, unprompted, that they had been ...