Forms of power as speech acts

Ideas Y Valores 74 (187):143-163 (2025)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

The objective of this article is to propose the project of an analysis of power, at the level of social ontology, departing from the theory of speech acts. This allows a decomposition of the factors that determine the acceptance of a claim to exercise power, differentiating each of the felicity conditions of the speech act through which the exercise of power is specified. The proposed approach also requires the formulation of a critique of conflictual approaches to power, which presupposes an opposition of interests between agent and subject in a power relationship. Finally, the proposed approach allows us a renewed analysis of the function of background power, understood as a resource that agents can use in their favor.

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 101,297

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

On Having the Floor: Power, Etiquette, and Grammar.John David Grayson - 1998 - Dissertation, The University of Tennessee
John L. Austin's Speech Acts and Its Application to a Nigerian Context.John Owen E. Adimike - 2023 - The Nuntius: A Philosophical Periodical 1 (1):11-13.
The technological construction of social power.Philip Brey - 2008 - Social Epistemology 22 (1):71 – 95.
Power and Social Ontology.Åsa Andersson - 2007 - Lund: Bokbox Publications.
The Forms of Power.Thomas E. Wartenberg - 1988 - Analyse & Kritik 10 (1):3-31.
Powers, Non‐Consent and Freedom.Stephen Mumford & Rani Lill Anjum - 2014 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 91 (1):136-152.
Reflections on Seven Ways of Creating Power.Mark Haugaard - 2003 - European Journal of Social Theory 6 (1):87-113.
The power of power—questions to Michel Foucault.Norbert Ricken - 2006 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 38 (4):541–560.

Analytics

Added to PP
2025-01-28

Downloads
0

6 months
0

Historical graph of downloads

Sorry, there are not enough data points to plot this chart.
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Noumenal Power.Rainer Forst - 2014 - Journal of Political Philosophy 23 (2):111-127.
Wilfrid Sellars. [REVIEW]Willem DeVries - 2005 - Review of Metaphysics 61 (4):854-855.

Add more references