[Wolff, Kurt Heinrich] Sharp, Gene.

Social Power and Political Freedom.

First Edition. Boston, Porter Sargent Publishers, 1980. 21.5cm x 14.6cm. 432 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good or better copy in publisher’s cloth covered boards in like dust jacket. Inscribed by Gene Sharp on the titlepage to sociologist Kurt Wolff: “To Carla and Kurt (Wolff), with much love and gratitude for your kindnesses for so many years. Gene. 27 February, 1981.”

Includes for Example: Rethinking Politics/ Social Power and Political Freedom/ Seeking Controls Over Governments/ The Role of Diffused Loci of Power in the Control of Political Power/ Institutional Forms Secondary to the Actual Distribution of Power/ Control of Political Power as a Result of Internal Strength/ Implications of this Analysis for the Control of Political Power/ Political Sanctions and the Distribution of Effective Power/ The Need to Think/ The Lesson of Eichmann. A Review-Essay on Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem/ Facing Dictatorships with Confidence/ Civil Disobedience in a Democracy/ Freedom and Revolution/ A Review of Hannah Arendt’s On Revolution/ What is Required to Uproot Oppression? Strategic Problems of the South African Resistance/ The Problem of Political Technique in Radical Politics/ The Political Equivalent of War- Civilian-based Defense/ The Problem of War/ The Need for a Substitute/ Control of Political Power and Conduct of Open Struggle/ Civilian-based Defense Policy/ The Politics and the World Community/ Seeking a Solution to the Problem of War/ The Societal Imperative/ Popular Empowerment/ Human Needs and the Distribution of Power/ Sanctions and Society/ Developing Strategies of Empowerment etc.

Gene Sharp points the way to the decentralization of political institutions and power..to avoid the..annihilation of human life, and the continued erosion of our personal freedoms. This is the only way to bring the government the political and practical reality of the words..″we the people”..

• Keywords: Association Copies · Association Copy · Civil and political rights · Civil Disobedience – Rare · Exile · Exilliteratur · Inscribed · Karl Mannheim Connection · Kurt Wolff Collection · Kurt Wolff Library (American Sociologist) · Library & Collection Building · Political Criticism – Rare · Signed · Sociology · Sociology – Rare · Sociology in Exile
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875580939
• Inventory Number: 41197AB