The Personal is the Political：From Canonic Theories to Situated Theories of Power and Love

• Main Authors: Shuan-Yi Lin, 林軒毅
• Other Authors: 陳思賢
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/04990319432393365145

碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 政治學研究所 === 101 === The purpose of this thesis is about political elites who pursue the power and love under the drive of “eros”. It is likely that pursuing power is similar to pursuing love. That is to say, power and love elucidate each other. First of all, power and love are categorized into three similar images in the canons, they mutually interpret. However, canons can hardly describe the complication and dynamic situation of life. As a result, the thesis tries to propose a “situated theories” found in literatures to enhance the lack of canons. Machiavelli and Shakespeare’s dramas could be the bridge between the “canonic theories” and “situated theories” of power and love. Their dramas indicate the meaning of politics. In the last three chapters, I found political elites’ process, results and meanings of pursuing love and power from the description in dramas. In the process, eros includes in many characters. Pursuing power and love are like micro-cosmos, love and power are epitomes of each other. Just as competing in political field, we make the best of social skills for pursuing love. I conclude that eros between two lovers is love, and eros among people is politics. Political elites pursue eros without hesitation and disregard the consequence often lead to danger. Political elites face a tremendous question: “to be or not to be”? So pursuing power and love is like gambling. That means political elites encounter unmasking moment when pursuing power and love. Through this action, they experience from self-disclosure to self-enactment and fulfill themselves consequently. Pursuing eros usually represses the instinct of self-preserving, so in the end such pursuing actions are usually causing the deaths of political elites. In conclusion, eros has great impact on political elites, however, situated description are not words, only men who experience of approaching eros and death simultaneously can understand the myth of eros.