Authority: Construction and Corrosion

Analyzing the 1992 incident in which antinuclear activist Rick Springer disrupted a Las Vegas speech given by former president Ronald Reagan, Lincoln questions Arendt's claims. He does not find a diminution of authority or a fundamental change in the conditions that produce it. Rather, Lincoln finds modern authority splintered, expanded, and, in fact, multiplied as the mechanisms for its construction become more complex - and more expensive. A lively, wide-ranging exploration of the concept of authority, this book will interest anyone concerned with the production and contestation of authority in the modern world.

• | Author: Bruce Lincoln
• | Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 22, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 235 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0226481980
• | ISBN-13: 9780226481982