Otorite

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This book is a study of both how we experience authority and how we might experience it differently. Sennett explores the bonds that rebellion against authority paradoxically establishes, showing how this paradox has been in the making since the French Revolution and how today it expresses itself in offices, in factories, and in government as well as in the family. Drawing on examples from psychology, sociology, and literature, he eloquently projects how we might reinvigorate the role of authority according to good and rational ideals. A master of the interplay between politics and psychology, Richard Sennett here analyzes the nature, the role, and the faces of authority―authority in personal life, in the public realm, authority as an idea. Why have we become so afraid of authority? What real needs for authority do we have―for guidance, stability, images of strength? What happens when our fear of and our need for authority come into conflict? In exploring these questions, Sennett examines traditional forms of authority (The father’s in the family, the lord’s in society) and the dominant contemporary styles of authority, and he shows how our needs for, no less than our resistance to, authority have been shaped by history and culture, as well as by psychological disposition.

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İnsanlar otoriteye neden ihtiyaç duyarlar? Otoriteden neden korkarlar? Otorite ilişkilerinin olmadığı bir toplum kurma tasarısı gerçekçi midir? Otoriteyle bağ kurmadan onu reddetmek mümkün müdür? Basit bir karşı çıkma bizi otoritenin olumsuzluklarından korumaya yetmediği gibi, onu gerektiği gibi değerlendirmemizi de engelliyorsa, ne yapabiliriz? Richard Sennett bu tür sorulara yanıt ararken insanların otoritelerle kurdukları özel ve kurumsallaşmış ilişkilerin tarihsel ve sosyopsikolojik bir panoramasını çiziyor. Anne babayla çocuk arasındaki gibi kişisel, işverenle işçi ya da devletle yurttaş arasındaki gibi toplumsal ilişkilerde otoriteyi tanımadan reddetmenin insanları ne tür çıkmazlara sürüklediğini anlatıyor...

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Other Editions

• OtoritePaperbackAyrıntı Yayınları2005-11-05
• AuthorityKnopf : distributed by Random House1980-01-01
• AuthorityAlfred A. Knopf1980-01-01
• AuthorityVintage Books1981-01-01
• AutoritéPaperbackFayard1982-01-13
• AuthorityFaber and Faber1993-01-01