Authority: Construction and Corrosion

by Bruce Lincoln

Book Overview

What is authority? How is it constituted? How ought one understand the subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) relations between authority and coercion? Between authorized and subversive speech? In this fascinating and intricate analysis, Bruce Lincoln argues that authority is not an entity but an effect. More precisely, it is an effect that depends for its power on the combination of the right speaker, the right speech, the right staging and props,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226481980
• ISBN13: 9780226481982
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"