The ambivalence of power. Mythology, ontology, praxis

Holding in the focus of the most close philosophical attention for more than a century, the problem of power has acquired a classic character, but at the same time it did not lose its severity and did not get rid of ambiguity. The author seems important to take this circumstance seriously and identify the logic and genealogy of the effects of the ambivalence of the authorities and its philosophical problematization. Power is understood by philosophers as cosmosying creative power, establishing values ​​and assuming order, and as a repressive machine of domination, focused on suppression and introducing control everywhere. The sacralization of power is no less paradoxical: delegating as grace, it tends to become a source of filth for its carrier. The ontological status of the philosophical concept of power is also ambiguous: its demonstrative postetaphysical potential does not cancel less obvious, but sustainable metaphysical inertia. Not to mention the fact that an ambivalent description of the nature of power in philosophy can be understood, including as a projection of always problematic and ambiguous relations of intellectuals and power. The book is intended for philosophers, representatives of humanities (sociologists, anthropologists, historians, psychologists) and a wide range of readers interested in the problems of power in humanitarian research