Abstract

TORRES, Esteban. Power, Society and Economy in Manuel Castells, 1983-2003: A Systematic Study of a Relationship. Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais [online]. 2013, n.102, pp.43-70. ISSN 2182-7435.  https://doi.org/10.4000/rccs.5448.

Manuel Castells’ sociological view of power gained worldwide popularity in the late 1990s but began to be built in the early 1980s, after his abandonment of Marxism. This paper makes a detailed analysis of how Castells conceptualizes power in relation to his abstract and multidimensional notion of society in the period 1983-2003, as well as the way in which power is linked to the concept of relations of production, which encapsulates a great part of his economic thought. The research allows us to show, among other things, Castells’s tactic of appropriation of Karl Marx’s theory of power, and his attachment to a vision of power closely linked to the most sensitive reductionisms of liberal doctrines.

Keywords : economic thought; Manuel Castells; relations of production; social theory; theory of power.

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