Bertrand Russell and George Orwell review of russell’s power: a new social analysis George Orwell, with an Introduction by Peter Stone First published in 1938, Power: A New Social Analysis is one of the few books by Russell dealing with political affairs that did not focus on questions of war and peace. Alongside a handful of other works – notably Human Society in Ethics and Politics (1954) – it also represents one of his few attempts to talk about politics in a systematic and theoretical way. And like Human Society , Power is generally not judged a success in terms of its theoretical ambitions. “In the course of this book,” Russell writes in the first chapter of Power , “I shall be concerned to prove that the fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.” Few would say that Russell fulfilled this ambition. He was always more successfu...
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