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Author : John Gaventa
Release : 1982
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 853/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Power and Powerlessness by : John Gaventa
Download or read book Power and Powerlessness written by John Gaventa. This book was released on 1982. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains to outsiders the conflicts between the financial interests of the coal and land companies and the moral rights of the vulnerable mountaineers.
Author : Vaclav Havel
Release : 2016-09-16
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 357/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Power of the Powerless by : Vaclav Havel
Download or read book The Power of the Powerless written by Vaclav Havel. This book was released on 2016-09-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books of great political insight and novelty always outlive their time of birth and this reissued work, initially published in 1985, is no exception. Written shortly after the formation of Charter 77, the essays in this collection are among the most original and compelling pieces of political writing to have emerged from central and Eastern Europe during the whole of the post-war period. Václav Havel’s essay provides the title for the book. It was read by all the contributors who in turn responded to the many questions which Havel raises about the potential power of the powerless. The essays explain the anti-democratic features and limits of Soviet-type totalitarian systems of power. They discuss such concepts as ideology, democracy, civil liberty, law and the state from a perspective which is radically different from that of people living in liberal western democracies. The authors also discuss the prospects for democratic change under totalitarian conditions. Steven Lukes’ introduction provides an invaluable political and historical context for these writings. The authors represent a very broad spectrum of democratic opinion, including liberal, conservative and socialist.
Author : Susan Rosenthal
Release : 2006
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 915/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Power and Powerlessness by : Susan Rosenthal
Download or read book Power and Powerlessness written by Susan Rosenthal. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reading this book is like taking the red pill in The Matrix. It opens your eyes to the truth." Janna Comrie
Author : Martin Lindhardt
Release : 2012-01-20
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 947/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Power in Powerlessness by : Martin Lindhardt
Download or read book Power in Powerlessness written by Martin Lindhardt. This book was released on 2012-01-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the ritual and everyday religious practices through which Pentecostal life worlds unfold this book breaks new ground in the study of Latin American and global Pentecostalism. In addition to asking the familiar question of why many lower class Latin Americans convert to Pentecostalism, the author asks another question, so far largely neglected in the scholarly literature: how, or through what processes, do people begin and continue to relate to themselves and the social world in a particular Pentecostal way? For members of the Evangelical Pentecostal Church in Valparaíso, Chile, life is pervaded by divine and satanic presence and intervention. Through its fine grained analysis of different ritual, discursive/narrative and reflective processes the book shows how church members integrate sacred others into their everyday lives ― or how they learn to live, think and behave as Pentecostals.
Author : David Biale
Release : 2010-12-22
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 535/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Power & Powerlessness in Jewish History by : David Biale
Download or read book Power & Powerlessness in Jewish History written by David Biale. This book was released on 2010-12-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To shed light on the tensions he observed between Jewish perceptions of power versus political realitieswhich "are often the cause of misguided political decisions," like Israel's Lebanese WarBiale analyzes Jewish history from the point of view of politics and power. The author of Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History here challenges the conventions of what he terms the Jewish "mythical past": the anachronistic interpretation that the Diaspora, which occurred between the fall of an independent Jewish commonwealth in A.D. 70 and the rebirth of the State of Israel in 1948, was politically impotent, and, conversely, that the First and Second Temple periods were eras of full Jewish national sovereignty.
