Steven Lukes's guest appearances

Steven Lukes

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Empowered Belonging

Pat Churchland

John Dunn

Rom Harre

Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Michael Puett

David Eagleman

Isaiah Berlin

Robert Wright

Jonathan Haidt

Stephen Davies

Catherine Wilson

Jess Phillips

James Wilson

Carlo Rovelli

David Spiegelhalter

OwlTail

Professor Steven Lukes is a British political and social theorist. Currently, he is a professor of politics and sociology at New York University. He was formerly a professor at the University of Siena, the European University Institute and the London School of Economics.  Photo Credits Evan Davis | by Steve Punter | CC BY 2.0 Prof. Steven Lukes| by KorayLoker | CC BY-SA 4.0 Peter Robinson | by the Hoover Institution| CC BY-SA 4.0  Audio Credits Nothing | by Pitx | CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

Professor Steven Lukes is a British political and social theorist. Currently, he is a professor of politics and sociology at New York University. He was formerly a professor at the University of Siena, the European University Institute and the London School of Economics. Photo Credits Evan Davis | by <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Evan_Davis_%28journalist%29%2C_2007.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Steve Punter</a> | <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CC BY 2.0</a> Prof. Steven Lukes| by <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/Steven_Lukes.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">KorayLoker</a> | <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CC BY-SA 4.0</a> Peter Robinson | by the <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_Robinson_(speechwriter).png" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hoover Institution</a>| <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CC BY-SA 4.0</a> Audio Credits <a href="http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Pitx/19863" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nothing</a> | by <a href="https://pitx.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pitx</a> | <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CC BY-NC-SA 2.0</a>

Centenary Podcast - Steven Lukes

What is power? Steven Lukes argues for a three-dimensional account of this concept in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

What is power? <a href="http://stevenlukes.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Steven Lukes</a> argues for a three-dimensional account of this concept in this episode of the <a href="http://www.philosophybites.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Philosophy Bites</a> podcast.

Steven Lukes on Power

If anyone can lay claim to be the father of sociology, it’s Émile Durkheim. By the time of the French academic’s death in 1917, he’d produced an extraordinary body of work on an eclectic range of topics, and had become a major contributor to French intellectual life. Above all, his ambition was to establish sociology as a legitimate science. Steven Lukes, a political and social theorist at New York University, was transfixed by Durkheim from early in his academic career -- his first major book was 1972's Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work. A Historical and Critical Study -- and has gone on to become one of the world’s leading Durkheim scholars. Of course, that’s almost a sidelight to Lukes’ own sociological theorizing, in particular his “radical” view of power that examines power in three dimensions – the overt, the covert and the power to shape desires and beliefs.” In this Social Science Bites podcast, Lukes tells interviewer Nigel Warburton how Durkheim's exploration of issues like labor, suicide and religion proved intriguing to a young academic and enduring for an established one. 

If anyone can lay claim to be the father of sociology, it’s Émile Durkheim. By the time of the French academic’s death in 1917, he’d produced an extraordinary body of work on an eclectic range of topics, and had become a major contributor to French intellectual life. Above all, his ambition was to establish sociology as a legitimate science. <a href="http://stevenlukes.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Steven Lukes</a>, a political and social theorist at New York University, was transfixed by Durkheim from early in his academic career -- his first major book was 1972's Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work. A Historical and Critical Study -- and has gone on to become one of the world’s leading Durkheim scholars. Of course, that’s almost a sidelight to Lukes’ own sociological theorizing, in particular his “radical” view of power that examines power in three dimensions – the overt, the covert and the power to shape desires and beliefs.” In this Social Science Bites podcast, Lukes tells interviewer Nigel Warburton how Durkheim's exploration of issues like labor, suicide and religion proved intriguing to a young academic and enduring for an established one.

Steven Lukes on Émile Durkheim