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Author : Gordon Hewart Baron Hewart
Release : 1973
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Book Synopsis The New Despotism by : Gordon Hewart Baron Hewart
Download or read book The New Despotism written by Gordon Hewart Baron Hewart. This book was released on 1973. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bülent Diken
Release : 2021-03-15
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis The New Despotism by : Bülent Diken
Download or read book The New Despotism written by Bülent Diken. This book was released on 2021-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ours is a post-political society that cannot imagine radical change; a ‘one dimensional’ society in which politics is reduced to economic concerns. Paradoxically, however, everybody today is subjected to the imperative of regular radical change. Populations have grown accustomed to the idea that one constantly needs to adapt to radical transformations, modify one’s life strategy in tune with the demands of the market on the one hand and the politics of security on the other. Indeed, the idea that there are unquestionable authorities, the idea of ‘despotism’, no longer refers to exceptional circumstances in which politics is suspended but rather seems to have become normalized as part of daily life. This book aims to articulate the genealogy of the despotism-economy-voluntary servitude nexus focusing on their different constellations in the prism of social theory and political philosophy. As it traces the genealogy of this nexus its concern is the field of formation, intervention and intelligibility that arises when and as the three concepts encounter one another.
Author : Gordon Hewart Baron Hewart
Release : 1945
Genre : Law
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Book Synopsis The New Despotism by : Gordon Hewart Baron Hewart
Download or read book The New Despotism written by Gordon Hewart Baron Hewart. This book was released on 1945. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published 1929.
Author : Alex J. Wood
Release : 2020-05-15
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Despotism on Demand by : Alex J. Wood
Download or read book Despotism on Demand written by Alex J. Wood. This book was released on 2020-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despotism on Demand draws attention to the impact of flexible scheduling on managerial power and workplace control. When we understand paid work as a power relationship, argues Alex J. Wood, we see how the spread of precarious scheduling constitutes flexible despotism; a novel regime of control within the workplace. Wood believes that flexible despotism represents a new domain of inequality, in which the postindustrial working class increasingly suffers a scheduling nightmare. By investigating two of the largest retailers in the world he uncovers how control in the contemporary "flexible firm" is achieved through the insidious combination of "flexible discipline" and "schedule gifts." Flexible discipline provides managers with an arbitrary means by which to punish workers, but flexible scheduling also requires workers to actively win favor with managers in order to receive "schedule gifts": more or better hours. Wood concludes that the centrality of precarious scheduling to control means that for those at the bottom of the postindustrial labor market the future of work will increasingly be one of flexible despotism.
Author : Paul Anthony Rahe
Release : 2009-01-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift by : Paul Anthony Rahe
Download or read book Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift written by Paul Anthony Rahe. This book was released on 2009-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989, the Cold War abruptly ended and it seemed as if the world was at last safe for democracy. But a spirit of uneasiness, discontent, and world-weariness soon arose and has persisted in Europe, in America, and elsewhere for two decades. To discern the meaning of this malaise we must investigate the nature of liberal democracy, says the author of this provocative book, and he undertakes to do so through a detailed investigation of the thinking of Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Tocqueville. Paul A. Rahe argues that these political thinkers anticipated the modern liberal republic's propensity to drift in the direction of “soft despotism”—a condition that arises within a democracy when paternalistic state power expands and gradually undermines the spirit of self-government. Such an eventuality, feared by Tocqueville in the nineteenth century, has now become a reality throughout the European Union, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. So Rahe asserts, and he explains what must be done to reverse this unfortunate trend.
