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Where is the Power?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2024
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It is high time to draw up a map of power.
No experience is more direct, more immediate than that of power. No term gives rise to more confusion, willingly or unwillingly.
Everyone dreams of it, and when he believes he holds a part of it, he then strives to make people forget it. We can assume that the only true criterion of power would be the assertion of the power-wielder that he has nothing in his pockets, nothing in his hands. And yet we speak of the intoxication of power. But is this the same kind of power?
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- Copyright © 1963 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)
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1 In this sense, the great book by Bertrand de Jouvenel, Du pouvoir (Geneva, Bourquin, 1947) is a remarkable synthesis.
2 Jacques Maritain, L'homme et l'État (Paris, Presses Universitaires de France), p. 129.
3 Ortega y Gasset, Le spectateur tenté (Paris, Plon), p. 273.
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