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Two-Dimensional Man An Essay on the Anthropology of Power and Symbolism in Complex Society
By Abner Cohen
Copyright 1974
170 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
174 Pages
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Routledge
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Central to this original study, first published in 1974, is that Political Man is also Symbolist Man, that man is two-dimensional. The book explores the possibilities of the systematic study of the dialectical interdependence between power relationships and symbolic action in modern, complex society. The discussion focuses on the processes by which interest groups, that cannot organise themselves... Read more
1. Introduction: the Bizarre and the Mystical in Modern Society 2. Power Relations and Symbolic Action 3. The Dialectics of Politico-Symbolic Interdependence 4. Political Man – Symbolist man 5. Symbolic Strategies in Group Organisation 6. ‘Invisible’ Organisations: Some Case Studies 7. Conclusions: Symbolic Action in the Politics of Stratification
Biography
Abner Cohen
