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Subtitle: Political Science and the Myth of Leadership
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781469628219
Subjects: Political science; Political leadership
Description: "Using a variety of critical approaches in his analysis, Robinson synthesizes elements of psychoanalysis, structuralism, Marxism, classical and neoclassical political philosophy, and cultural anthropology in order to argue that Western thought on leadership is mythological rather than rational. He then presents examples of historically developed 'stateless' societies with social organizations that suggest conceptual alternatives to the ways political order has been conceived in the West."