Table of Contents
Foreword/xv Translator's Note/xxi The Minotaur Presented/3
1. The proximate cause. 2. The growth of war. 3. Kings in search of armies. 4. Power extended, war extended. 5. The men whom war takes. 6. Absolute Power is not dead. 7. The Minotaur masked. 8. The Minotaur unmasked. 9. Ubiquity of the Minotaur.
Book I
METAPHYSICS OF POWER
I. Of Civil Obedience/19
1. The mystery of civil obedience. 2. The historical character of obedience. 3. Statics and dynamics of obedience. 4. Obedience linked to credit.
II. Theories of Sovereignty/29
1. Divine sovereignty. 2. Popular sovereignty. 3. Democratic popular sovereignty. 4. A dynamic of Power. 5. How sovereignty can control Power. 6. The theories of sovereignty considered in their effects.
III. The Organic Theories of Power/48
1. The Nominalist conception of society. 2. The Realist conception of society. 3. Logical consequences of the Realist conception. 4. The division of labour and organicism. 5. Society, a living organism. 6. The problem of Power's extent in the organicist theory. 7. Water for Power's mill.
Book II
ORIGINS OF POWER
IV. The Magical Origins of Power/71
1. The classical conception: political authority the child of paternal authority. 2. The Iroquois period: the negation of the patriarchate. 3. The Australian period: the magical authority. 4. Frazer's theory: the sacrificial king. 5. The invisible government. 6. The rule of the magician-elders. 7. The conservative character of magical Power.
V. The Coming of the Warrior/88
1. Social consequences of the warlike spirit. 2. War gives birth to the patriarchate. 3. The warrior aristocracy is also a plutocracy. 4. The government. 5. The king. 6. The state or public thing. 7. Kingship becomes monarchy. 8. The public thing without state apparatus. 9. Ancient republics. 10. Government by folkways. 11. Monarchical heritage of the modern state.
Book III
OF THE NATURE OF POWER
VI. The Dialectic of Command/107
1. Power in its pure state. 2. Reconstruction of the phenomenon by synthesis. 3. Command as cause. 4. Command as it first looked. 5. Command for its sake. 6. Pure Power forswears itself. 7. Establishment of monarchy. 8. From parasitism to symbiosis. 9. Formation of the nation in the person of the king. 10. The City of Command. 11. Overthrow of Power. 12. The two ways. 13. The natural evolution of every apparatus or rule. 14. The governmental ego. 15. The essential duality of Power. 16. Of the egoism of Power. 17. The noble forms of governmental egoism.
VII. The Expansionist Character of Power/132
1. Egoism is a necessary part of Power. 2. From egoism to idealism. 3. The egoistical stimulus of growth. 4. The social justifications for Power's growth. 5. Power as the repository of human hopes. 6. Thought and Power, the philosopher and the tyrant.
VIII. Of Political Rivalry/150
1. Is war alien to modern times? 2. A self-militarizing civilization. 3. The law of political rivalry. 4. Advance of Power, advance of war. Advance of war, advance of Power. 5. From the feudal army to the royal army. 6. War, midwife of absolute monarchy. 7. Powers in international rivalry. 8. Conscription. 9. The era of cannon fodder. 10. Total war.
Book IV
THE STATE AS PERMANENT REVOLUTION
IX. Power, Assailant of the Social Order/171
1. Power's conflict with aristocracy and alliance with the common people. 2. Is Power a social conservative or a social revolutionary? 3. The troughs in the statocratic waves. 4. Power and the cell of the clan. 5. Power and the baronial cell. 6. Power and the capitalistic cell. 7. Zenith and dismemberment of the state. 8. The dynamism of politics.
X. Power and the Common People/193
1. The feudal commonwealth. 2. Power asserts itself. 3. The place of the common man in the state. 4. Plebeian absolutism. 5. The aristocratic reaction. 6. Bad tactics and suicide of the French aristocracy.
XI. Power and Beliefs/214
1. Power restrained by beliefs. 2. The divine law. 3. The law's solemnity. 4. The law and the laws. 5. The two sources of law. 6. The law and custom. 7. The development of the legislative authority. 8. The rationalist crisis and the political consequences of Protagorism.
Book V
THE FACE OF POWER CHANGES, BUT NOT ITS NATURE
XII. Of Revolutions/237
1. Revolutions liquidate weakness and bring forth strength. 2. Three revolutions. 3. Revolution and tyranny. 4. Identity of the democratic state with the monarchical state. 5. Continuity of Power. 6. Disparate character of the authority of the ancien regime. 7. Weakening of Power. Aristocratic coalition. 8. The Third Estate restored the monarchy without the king. 9. Napoleon's prefect, the child of the Revolution. 10. The Revolution and individual rights. 11. Justice stands disarmed before Power. 12. The state and the Russian Revolution.
XIII. Imperium and Democracy/261
1. On the fate of ideas. 2. The principle of liberty and the principle of law. 3. The sovereignty of the law results in parliamentary sovereignty. 4. The people, judge of the law. 5. Law as the people's good pleasure.' 6. The appetite for the imperium. 7. Of parliamentary sovereignty. 8. From the sovereignty of the law to the sovereignty of the people.
XIV. Totalitarian Democracy/282
1. Sovereignty and liberty. 2. The idea of the whole advances. 3. The attack on centrifugal tendencies. 4. The authoritarian spirit in democracy. 5. The general interest and its monopoly. 6. Self-defence of the interests. 7. Of the formation of Power. 8. Of parties. 9. Of the political machine. 10. From the citizen to the campaigner: the competition for Power takes military form. 11. Towards the plebiscitary regime. 12. The competition of mechanized' parties ends in the dictatorship of one party. 13. The degradation of the regime is linked to the degradation of the idea of law.
Book VI
LIMITED POWER OR UNLIMITED POWER?
XV. Limited Power/313
1. Limited Power. 2. Of internal checks. 3. Of makeweights. 4. The makeweights crushed and law subordinated. 5. Unlimited Power is equally dangerous whatever its source and wherever it rests. 6. Thought swings back to limited Power. Lessons drawn from England. 7. The formal separation of powers.
XVI. Power and Law/334
1. Is law a mere body of rules issued by authority? 2. Of unlimited legislative authority. 3. The mistake of the hedonist and the utilitarian. 4. Law above Power. 5. A period of ambulatory law. 6. Remedies against laws. 7. When the judge checks the agent of Power. 8. Of the authority of the judge. 9. Does the movement of ideas affect the fundamentals of law? 10. The way in which law becomes jungle.
XVII. Liberty's Aristocratic Roots/352
1. Of liberty. 2. The distant origins of liberty. 3. The system of liberty. 4. Liberty as a system based on class. 5. The free, the unfree, the half-free. 6. Incorporation and differential assimilation. 7. The advance of Caesarism. 8. The conditions of liberty. 9. The two possible directions of people's parties. 10. The problem is still with us. 11. Of the historical formation of national characteristics. 12. Why democracy extends Power's rights and weakens the individual's safeguards.
XVIII. Liberty or Security/375
1. The price of liberty. 2. Ruunt in servitutem. 3. Of the architecture of society. 4. Power and social promotion. 5. The middle class and liberty. 6. One level of liberty or several levels. 7. A securitarian aristocracy. 8. Disappearance of the libertarian element. 9. The pactum subjectionis. 10. Social security and state omnipotence. 11. The social protectorate; its justification and purpose. 12. Theocracies and wars of religion.
XIX. Order or Social Protectorate/396
1. The Liberal negation. 2. The legalitarian' criticism. 3. The modern problem and its absurd solution. 4. The miracle of confidence. 5. Concepts of right conduct. 6. On the regulation of society. 7. New functions necessitate new constraining concepts. 8. Social authorities without ethical codes. 9. Consequences of a false conception of society. 10. From chaos to totalitarianism. 11. The fruits of individualist rationalism. Epilogue/419 Index/423
