Round Тable "Limits of Power"
Oleg Donskikh,  Galina Litvintseva,  Vladimir Glinsky,  I.A. Valdman,  Sergey Isakov,  Irina Knyazeva,  Nina Makarova,  Konstantin Kurlenya,  Lyudmila Osmuk,  Georgy Antipov,  Yury Ivonin,  Sergey Krasilnikov
Abstract:

Experts in the humanities and social sciences discussed a range of issues related to power and its conceptualization: its nature, institutions, conditions of implementation, and effectiveness. They examined the formation of power mechanisms and the manifestation of power in the economy and politics, as well as the social and spiritual spheres of life. The following questions were discussed:

1. What is the scope of orders in various spheres of public life—economics, politics, social life, culture, and others? In which spheres is it easier to refuse obedience?

2. Is it possible to transfer subordination patterns from one sphere to another?

3. Is there meaning in the expressions "the power of ideas," "the power of beauty," "the power of love," "the power of science and technology," and "the power of law"? Or is power only where there is command and obedience?

4. The nature and source of power (in various spheres of public life).