EAN: 9789052014296

FIGURES OF AUTHORITY KARTONIERT (TB)

This book is about authority  more precisely  about figures of authority. The editors have put
together an international group of renowned scholars to discuss the emergence of modern notions
of authority from different angles. Modern authority is no longer legitimated by status and
social position  but rather by institutional affiliation and performance. To research the
genealogy and intricacies of this kind of authority  the chapters in this volume cast a closer
look at the various institutional actors on whom authority has been bestowed. The authors use a
case study approach to look at the instances in which modern authority emerged  was ridiculed 
contested  or even failed. Taken together  the individual contributions shed new light on the
intricate relationship between the subjects and their organisations  they challenge any Whig
historiography of rationalisation and modernisation  and they help us to rethink the
inter-relationship between modern and even postmodern institutional arrangements on the one
hand  and their subjects on the other.

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