Building from the level of individual interaction, this book intends to shed light on what the author terms ‘infrasocial power’ and the relation between this individual-actor oriented level and public power. In overviewing the origins of power, the author allows for the disaggregation of the social fabric, thus making it possible to: 1) isolate the “sequence” in which the phenomenon of superordination and subordination materialises; 2) identify the institutional “instrumen...
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1. Society and Power.- 2. The reshaping of man and the birth of totalitarian power.- 3. The conditions enabling individual choice and the limitation of power.- 4. Par...
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Lorenzo Infantino is Professor of Philosophy of the Social Sciences at LUISS-Guido Carli in Rome, Italy. He is the author of Individualism in Modern Thought ...