Editor’s note: In this excerpt from the book What is Power? Luke Wolf reviews the conceptual definitions of power in Hindi, Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Urdu, Russian, and Japanese. Together, the languages considered in this article embrace more than 3,454,545,200 speakers, outnumbering English speakers by 1,998,096,880 individuals. The essay seeks to supplement and extend our… Continue reading What is Power? The Language of Power
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Julien Freund: What is Politics? part 2
What is Politics? A translation of Qu’est-ce que la politique? By: Julien Freund Translated from the French by Luke Wolf Part 1 is available here Introduction: On Political Action The aim of this study is to define the goal of politics. As the goal of politics is specific to the essence of politics, the goal… Continue reading Julien Freund: What is Politics? part 2
