Authority: Construction and Corrosion

Authority: Construction and Corrosion
ISBN-10
0226481980
ISBN-13
9780226481982
Series
Authority
Category
Architecture
Pages
228
Language
English
Published
1994
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Author
Bruce Lincoln

Description

Analyzing the 1992 incident in which antinuclear activist Rick Springer disrupted a Las Vegas speech given by former president Ronald Reagan, Lincoln questions Arendt's claims. He does not find a diminution of authority or a fundamental change in the conditions that produce it. Rather, Lincoln finds modern authority splintered, expanded, and, in fact, multiplied as the mechanisms for its construction become more complex - and more expensive. A lively, wide-ranging exploration of the concept of authority, this book will interest anyone concerned with the production and contestation of authority in the modern world.

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