Agency Troubles : a Review of Isaac Reed’s Power in Modernity : Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020)

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F22%3A00124910" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/22:00124910 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10767-021-09395-7" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10767-021-09395-7</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10767-021-09395-7" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10767-021-09395-7</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Agency Troubles : a Review of Isaac Reed’s Power in Modernity : Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020)

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Power in Modernity can be read in many ways, as application and extension of Reed’s methodological book on interpretation, as elaboration and demonstration of a novel theory of power, and finally, as reflection on modernity through the lenses of shifting imaginations of power. Reed’s new book consists of three parts: the first, theoretical, section develops a theory of agency relations and power; the second, empirical, section uses the theoretical apparatus to illuminate several case studies of power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, mainly in North America but also in England and France; and the third, concluding, section engages in a metatheoretical discussion of (power in) modernity. There is much to discuss about Power in Modernity, depending on one’s interests. In the following, I will first discuss Power in Modernity as a Weberian theory of power as delegation, which is embedded in a culturally sensitive framework. Afterwards, I will address the Hegelian social theory underlying the argument of the book and raise the question: With what should we replace Hegel’s concept of the spirit? Finally, I will offer a reading of Power in Modernity as a historical sociology of the present, discussing populism, conspiracy theories, and political scandals as contemporary phenomena to which Reed’s theory could be applied.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Agency Troubles : a Review of Isaac Reed’s Power in Modernity : Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020)

Popis výsledku anglicky

Power in Modernity can be read in many ways, as application and extension of Reed’s methodological book on interpretation, as elaboration and demonstration of a novel theory of power, and finally, as reflection on modernity through the lenses of shifting imaginations of power. Reed’s new book consists of three parts: the first, theoretical, section develops a theory of agency relations and power; the second, empirical, section uses the theoretical apparatus to illuminate several case studies of power in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, mainly in North America but also in England and France; and the third, concluding, section engages in a metatheoretical discussion of (power in) modernity. There is much to discuss about Power in Modernity, depending on one’s interests. In the following, I will first discuss Power in Modernity as a Weberian theory of power as delegation, which is embedded in a culturally sensitive framework. Afterwards, I will address the Hegelian social theory underlying the argument of the book and raise the question: With what should we replace Hegel’s concept of the spirit? Finally, I will offer a reading of Power in Modernity as a historical sociology of the present, discussing populism, conspiracy theories, and political scandals as contemporary phenomena to which Reed’s theory could be applied.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50401 - Sociology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society

ISSN

0891-4486

e-ISSN

1573-3416

Svazek periodika

35

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

265-278

Kód UT WoS článku

000617498100001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85101031001