Raymond Angelo Belliotti 
Power 
Oppression, Subservience, and Resistance

Frequently understood in simplistic and often highly negative terms, the concept of power has proven to be both uncommonly intriguing and maddeningly elusive. In
Power, Raymond Angelo Belliotti begins by fashioning a general definition of power that is refined enough to capture the numerous types of power in all their multifaceted complexity. He then proceeds in a series of discrete yet thematically connected meditations to explore the meaning of power in ancient, modern, and contemporary thought. In grappling with the critical questions surrounding the accumulation, distribution, and exercise of personal and social power, this work allows us to confront fundamental questions of who we are and how we might live better lives.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction




Part One


I. Concepts of Power



II. Thrasymachus (ca. 459 BC–ca. 400 BC) and Socrates (ca. 470 BC–ca. 399 BC): Does Might Make Right?



III. Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527): The Ambiguity of Power



IV. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900): The Will to Power




Part Two


V. Stoicism: Overcoming Oppression through Attitude



VI. Georg W. F. Hegel (1770–1831): The Dynamic of Dyadic Relationships of Power



VII. Karl Marx (1818–1883) and Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) Securing the Acquiescence of the Oppressed



Part Three
VIII. Michel Foucault (1926–1984): The Ubiquity of Power



IX. Jürgen Habermas (1929–): The Power of Communicative Rationality



X. Feminism: The Power of Collective Transformation



XI. Final Words



Notes

Bibliography

About the Author

Index

Despre autor

Raymond Angelo Belliotti is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He is the author of many books, including
Machiavelli’s Secret: The Soul of the Statesman, also published by SUNY Press.