Raymond Angelo Belliotti is SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He is the author of many books, including Machiavelli's Secret: The Soul of the Statesman, also published by SUNY Press.

• AbbreviationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One I. Concepts of PowerII. Thrasymachus (ca. 459 BC–ca. 400 BC) and Socrates (ca. 470 BC–ca. 399 BC): Does Might Make Right?III. Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527): The Ambiguity of PowerIV. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900): The Will to PowerPart Two V. Stoicism: Overcoming Oppression through AttitudeVI. Georg W. F. Hegel (1770–1831): The Dynamic of Dyadic Relationships of PowerVII. Karl Marx (1818–1883) and Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) Securing the Acquiescence of the OppressedPart ThreeVIII. Michel Foucault (1926–1984): The Ubiquity of PowerIX. Jürgen Habermas (1929–): The Power of Communicative RationalityX. Feminism: The Power of Collective TransformationXI. Final WordsNotesBibliographyAbout the AuthorIndex

"Power is an impressive project for its breadth and insight. Belliotti offers an exhaustive discussion of the philosophical notion of power, which deepens the reader's understanding of power and provides a 'powerful' tool for assessing the proper uses of and abuses of social and dyadic power relations. The book is rich with material, expertly organized, and written in a clear and accessible style." — Kimberly Blessing, Buffalo State, The State University of New York