Concern with authority is as old as human history itself. Eve's sin
was to challenge the authority of God by disobeying his rule. Frank
Furedi explores how authority was contested in ancient Greece and
given a powerful meaning in Imperial Rome. Debates about religious and
secular authority dominated Europe through the Middle Ages and the
Reformation. The modern world attempted to develop new foundations for
authority – democratic consent, public opinion, science – yet
Furedi shows that this problem has remained unresolved, arguing that
today the authority of authority is questioned. This historical
sociology of authority seeks to explain how the contemporary problems
of mistrust and the loss of legitimacy of many institutions are
informed by the previous attempts to solve the problem of authority.
It argues that the key pioneers of the social sciences (Marx,
Durkheim, Simmel, Tonnies and especially Weber) regarded this question
as one of the principal challenges facing society.
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ISBN
9781107460553
Publisert
2014
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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