Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Says Who? : the struggle for authority in a market-based society, Paperback / softback Book

Says Who? : the struggle for authority in a market-based society Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours

Description

‘We live in an extremely controlling society in which authority has disappeared … traditional authority is lapsing into brute force … and we ourselves must take the first steps towards creating a new social order.’This was the trenchant diagnosis by Paul Verhaeghe at the end of his acclaimed book about identity, What About Me?

Now he returns to investigate another aspect of our lives under threat: authority. In Says Who?, Verhaeghe examines how authority functions and why we need it in order to develop healthy psyches and strong societies.

Going against the laissez-faire ethics of a free-market age, he argues that rather than seeing authority as a source of oppression we should invest in developing it in the places that matter.

Only by strengthening the power of horizontal groups within existing social structures, such as in education, the economy, and the political system, can we restore authority to its rightful place.

Whether you are a parent or child, teacher or student, employer or employee, Says Who? provides the answers you need.

Information

Other Formats

Save 9%

£12.99

£11.75

Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information