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Thesis 3. Institutional Power as Potestas

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© 2020 Duke University Press, Durham, USA

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Foreword: The Liberation of Politics: Alterity, Solidarity, Liberation vii
  4. Preliminary Words xv
  5. Introduction 1
  6. Thesis 1. Corruption and the Political Field: The Public and the Private 3
  7. Part One: THE PREVAILING POLITICAL ORDER
  8. Thesis 2. The Political Power of the Community as Potentia 11
  9. Thesis 3. Institutional Power as Potestas 18
  10. Thesis 4. Obediential Power 24
  11. Thesis 5. The Fetishization of Power: Power as Domination 30
  12. Thesis 6. Strategic Political Action 36
  13. Thesis 7. The Need for Political Institutions: The Material Sphere (Ecological, Economic, Cultural): Fraternity 43
  14. Thesis 8. Institutions in the Spheres of Democratic Legitimacy and Feasibility: Equality and Liberty: Governability 50
  15. Thesis 9. Ethics and the Implicit Normative Principles of Politics: The Material Principle 56
  16. Thesis 10. The Formal-Democratic and Feasibility Principles of Politics 62
  17. Part Two: THE CRITICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE POLITICAL: TOWARD THE NEW POLITICAL ORDER
  18. Thesis 11. The People: The Popular Sector and ‘‘Populism’’ 69
  19. Thesis 12. Liberatory Power as Hyperpotentia and the ‘‘State of Rebellion’’ 78
  20. Thesis 13. The Political Principles of Liberation: The Critical Material Principle 83
  21. Thesis 14. The Critical-Democratic and Strategic Transformation Principles 88
  22. Thesis 15. Liberation Praxis of Social and Political Movements 94
  23. Thesis 16. Anti-Hegemonic Praxis and the Construction of a New Hegemony 103
  24. Thesis 17. Transformation of Political Institutions: Reform, Transformation, Revolution: Political Postulates 108
  25. Thesis 18. Transformation of Institutions in the Material Sphere: ‘‘Perpetual Life’’ and Solidarity 114
  26. Thesis 19. Transformation of Institutions in the Sphere of Democratic Legitimacy: Irruption of New Rights: ‘‘Perpetual Peace’’ and Alterity 122
  27. Thesis 20. Transformation of Institutions in the Sphere of Feasibility: The ‘‘Dissolution of the State’’? Liberation 131
  28. Notes 139
  29. Bibliography 151
  30. Index 155
Twenty Theses on Politics
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822389446-007

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Foreword: The Liberation of Politics: Alterity, Solidarity, Liberation vii
  4. Preliminary Words xv
  5. Introduction 1
  6. Thesis 1. Corruption and the Political Field: The Public and the Private 3
  7. Part One: THE PREVAILING POLITICAL ORDER
  8. Thesis 2. The Political Power of the Community as Potentia 11
  9. Thesis 3. Institutional Power as Potestas 18
  10. Thesis 4. Obediential Power 24
  11. Thesis 5. The Fetishization of Power: Power as Domination 30
  12. Thesis 6. Strategic Political Action 36
  13. Thesis 7. The Need for Political Institutions: The Material Sphere (Ecological, Economic, Cultural): Fraternity 43
  14. Thesis 8. Institutions in the Spheres of Democratic Legitimacy and Feasibility: Equality and Liberty: Governability 50
  15. Thesis 9. Ethics and the Implicit Normative Principles of Politics: The Material Principle 56
  16. Thesis 10. The Formal-Democratic and Feasibility Principles of Politics 62
  17. Part Two: THE CRITICAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE POLITICAL: TOWARD THE NEW POLITICAL ORDER
  18. Thesis 11. The People: The Popular Sector and ‘‘Populism’’ 69
  19. Thesis 12. Liberatory Power as Hyperpotentia and the ‘‘State of Rebellion’’ 78
  20. Thesis 13. The Political Principles of Liberation: The Critical Material Principle 83
  21. Thesis 14. The Critical-Democratic and Strategic Transformation Principles 88
  22. Thesis 15. Liberation Praxis of Social and Political Movements 94
  23. Thesis 16. Anti-Hegemonic Praxis and the Construction of a New Hegemony 103
  24. Thesis 17. Transformation of Political Institutions: Reform, Transformation, Revolution: Political Postulates 108
  25. Thesis 18. Transformation of Institutions in the Material Sphere: ‘‘Perpetual Life’’ and Solidarity 114
  26. Thesis 19. Transformation of Institutions in the Sphere of Democratic Legitimacy: Irruption of New Rights: ‘‘Perpetual Peace’’ and Alterity 122
  27. Thesis 20. Transformation of Institutions in the Sphere of Feasibility: The ‘‘Dissolution of the State’’? Liberation 131
  28. Notes 139
  29. Bibliography 151
  30. Index 155
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