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The Study On Postmodernism View Of Power Of Major Person

Posted on:2011-09-13Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2196330338491347Subject:Political Theory
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In the mid-80s, Postmodernism began to enter International Relations Theory. Its oncoming force is fierce, strong powerful, initiates the intense challenge to the traditional international relations theory. Postmodernism is characterized by a general and experience against the empirical methodology and epistemology, opposed to reason is the deciding factor, against modernity and the Enlightenment tradition. However it is a very difficult matter to make accurate and the comprehensive description of its ideological trend. Therefore, we selected three of the most representative figures and their ideas of knowledge and power relations to introduce and analyz. Postmodern view of power is different from the traditional view of power, the state, the government and laws as the center of power, creating a top-down domination, control and domination of the building. Postmodernism against this center of power of the model, they study the perspective of the power of knowledge, discourse, and space, known as micro-view of power. Foucault believes that power is no center, no subject, variable and a huge network of relationships ,everyone is a member of the huge network; Habermas's proposed the discourse of political theory, by describing the legitimacy of the law, obtains the law is associates the authority to transform as the administrative authority medium; Derrida proposed the right to speak which is base on the deconstruction theory .This article is divided into four chapters. The first chapter introduces the thinking of Foucault's micro-view of power, second chapter describes the political theory of Habermas's discourse, and then focuses on his communication theory, the law is associates the authority to transform as the administrative authority medium. The third chapter focuses on Derrida's deconstruction theory, while under the framework of deconstruction theory, he explained the right to speak. The fourth chapter is the evaluation of post-modernismThrough the study above, we can obtain that postmodern view of power is the micro-view of power, they study all aspects of social life, which undoubtedly gives us a look at the issue of new perspectives and values diversity, however, if blindly oppose and doubt everything, everything is bound to nihilistic deconstruction.
Keywords/Search Tags:Postmodernism, power, micro view of power, discourse and political theory, exchanges of power
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