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Democracy and Domination: Technologies of Integration and the Rise of Collective Power

Democracy and Domination: Technologies of Integration and the Rise of Collective Power

by Amanda Gail Zeddy (Author), Andrew M. Koch (Author)

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    Hardcover 2009

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Synopsis

Drawing on the genealogical tradition developed by Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault,Democracy and Domination argues that from the time of Ancient Greece to the present, the collective and centralizing aspects of power have been expanding in the Western world. Modern democracy should be seen as a system of domination that assists in the coordination and expansion of collective power.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 268
 Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 28 Mar 2009
ISBN 10: 0739122150
ISBN 13: 9780739122150

Media Reviews
Koch and Zeddy's Democracy and Domination uses a Foucauldian analysis of power to revive the Nietzschean critique of democracy. Understanding the historical rise of democracy in the West as ever more efficient techniques of domination, the authors argue that democracy is a specific form of social control constituted through knowledge production and the collectivization of power. The incisive historical and material analysis is sure to spark controversy and discussion among political theorists and students of democracy. -- William L. Niemi, Western State College of Colorado
Democracy and Domination is an ambitious historical study of the integration and disintegration of Western institutions of sovereign power from the ancient Greek /polis/ to twenty-first century globalization. Placing particular emphasis on the integrating and legitimizing capacities of 'soft' forms of domination-literacy, technologies of knowledge dissemination, agencies of socialization, education, and democracy-Koch and Zeddy conclude that Western democracy is a Janus-faced form of legitimizing power. -- Wayne Gabardi, Idaho State University
Author Bio
Andrew M. Koch is professor of government and justice studies at Appalachian State University and author ofPoststructuralism and the Politics of Method,Romance and Reason: Ontological and Social Sources of Alienation, andKnowledge and Social Construction. Amanda Gail Zeddy has been an adjunct professor of American Government and Politics at Appalachian State University and is currently working on her PhD at the University of California at Santa Barbara.