TY - JOUR
T1 - Noumenal power
T2 - concept and explanation
AU - Lukes, Steven
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/1/2
Y1 - 2018/1/2
N2 - Does ‘noumenal power’ adequately represent ‘the real and general phenomenon of power,’ as the capacity to secure the compliance of others? Does it include what is relevantly similar and exclude what is not? Forst’s concept is, appropriately, interagentive, but errs in insisting that power is intentionally ‘exercised’ thereby excluding countless ways in which compliance can be otherwise secured. Does ‘noumenal power’ offer the best explanation of how power functions? In claiming that it must involve the recognition of reasons to act differently than one otherwise would, it does not address the role of emotions, overstates the role of reasoning, and excludes various significant ways in which power bypasses conscious awareness: through unconscious intuitions and inferences and taken-for-granted cultural schemas, by occlusion, excluding thoughts from consideration, and by signaling, in ways that mimic reasons.
AB - Does ‘noumenal power’ adequately represent ‘the real and general phenomenon of power,’ as the capacity to secure the compliance of others? Does it include what is relevantly similar and exclude what is not? Forst’s concept is, appropriately, interagentive, but errs in insisting that power is intentionally ‘exercised’ thereby excluding countless ways in which compliance can be otherwise secured. Does ‘noumenal power’ offer the best explanation of how power functions? In claiming that it must involve the recognition of reasons to act differently than one otherwise would, it does not address the role of emotions, overstates the role of reasoning, and excludes various significant ways in which power bypasses conscious awareness: through unconscious intuitions and inferences and taken-for-granted cultural schemas, by occlusion, excluding thoughts from consideration, and by signaling, in ways that mimic reasons.
KW - Intenationality
KW - occlusion
KW - reasons and emotions
KW - signaling
KW - unconscious power
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U2 - 10.1080/2158379X.2018.1433755
DO - 10.1080/2158379X.2018.1433755
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85041508555
SN - 2158-379X
VL - 11
SP - 46
EP - 55
JO - Journal of Political Power
JF - Journal of Political Power
IS - 1
ER -