Author:Mikheil Gogatishvili

Page number, Format:264, A5

© Open Society -Georgia Foundation, 2003

Short Description:The basic categories like political authority and its relation to political theory are discussed in the book. The latter consists of eleven topics and each of them implies subtopics. The main topics are: specifics of political authority; specifics of the theory of political authority; main political discussions of XX century; non-repressive discussions – critics of totalitarianism; problem of political authority and political theory in western philosophy of XX century – rise of non-repressive discussions; pre-postmodern circumstances and problems of political authority theory; anti repressive discussions; rejection of repressive political discussions; the problem of alienation of political theory; theory of political authority and return to origins.