http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/noumenal-power Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 31 May 2026 08:59:22 -0400 Sun, 31 May 2026 08:59:22 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1033/the-source-and-nature-of-power-comparing-noumenal-and-structural-power-according-to-forst-and-strange By Shaun Docherty - Their protest challenged the paradigm of power as it existed at the time, specifically by revealing the limitations of the state's ability to exercise its will even in a situation where the state wielded seemingly absolute authority.[1] Power, as Rainer Forst argues, is "noumenal" and as such it can only exist when recognized by the subject.[2] The hunger strikers' symbolic act of defiance against the British state demonstrates how it is the subject who is empowered by their choice of whether or not to recognize the sovereignty of an outside authority. Even while imprisoned and in solitary confinement... Fri, 15 May 2015 09:35 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1033/the-source-and-nature-of-power-comparing-noumenal-and-structural-power-according-to-forst-and-strange