What Is Authority?

Arendt, H. (1961). What Is Authority?. Between Past and Future: Six Exercises in Political Thought.

Type

Book chapter

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1961

Link

https://archive.org/details/betweenpastfutur0000aren

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sociology_anthropology

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• Authority
  • Arendt (1961), in "What is Authority?", further distinguished authority from both power and violence, arguing authority requires consent to the legitimating principle even amid disagreement with particular decisions.

    This sourceGenealogical essay tracing authority to the Roman triad of authority, tradition, and religion; argues authority is neither coercion nor persuasion but a recognized order rooted in a foundational past, requiring consent to the legitimating principle even amid disagreement with particular commands.

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