What drives social change - and how does control persist?
This book offers a bold and original framework for understanding how domination and autonomy constantly shift within our relationships, institutions and political systems. Drawing on both classical and contemporary theory, Browne traces how struggles against injustice generate change - while also giving rise to new forms of control.
From the workplace to the state, this book explores how power is negotiated, resisted and reasserted. Setting out an innovative agenda for critical social theory, it reveals how the push for greater autonomy drives both social conflict and institutional transformation.
| ISBN: | 9781529230185 |
| Publication date: | 28th July 2026 |
| Author: | Craig Browne |
| Publisher: | Bristol University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Genres: |
Social theory Right-of-centre democratic ideologies Capitalism Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology Social and political philosophy Political science and theory |
What drives social change - and how does control persist? This book offers a bold and original framework for understanding how domination and autonomy constantly shift within our relationships, institutions and political systems.
The Dialectic of Control features in the following genres: Social theory, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Capitalism, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Social and political philosophy, Political science and theory
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The Dialectic of Control was written by Craig Browne and published by Bristol University Press
The Dialectic of Control has 256 pages
£72.00, reduced from £80.00. Not Available.