Civilization and oppression
By: edited by Catherine Wilson.
Contributors: Wilson, Catherine, 1951-
Series: Canadian journal of philosophy.; 25
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Calgary
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Oppression (Psychology); Equality; Social classes; Acculturation
Description: Explores the positive and negative relationship of civilization, taken in its broadest sense, to the oppression of the weak by the powerful. A set of distinctive essays offers fresh insights into the thought of political philosophers, including Locke, Montesquieu, Marx, Kant, Mill and Rawls, into the epistemology and psychology of subjection and into the postmodernist response of Foucault and his successors to the fact of the domination of human by human.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Social inequality : Rousseau in retrospect / Catherine Wilson; title: Lockean money, indigenism and globalism / Naomi Zack; title: Vico and Montesquieu : limits of pluralist imagination / Bhikhu Parekh; title: Millian liberalism and colonial oppression / D.G. Brown; title: Sublime waste : Kant on the destiny of the 'races' / Mark Larrimore; title: Time, modernity, and destructive habits of thought / Oliver Leaman; title: Subjecthood and self-determination : the limitations of postmodernism as democratic theory / Jeff Noonan; title: Justice theory and oppression / J. Harvey; title: Epistemic oppression and epistemic privilege / Miranda Fricker; title: Freud's metapsychology and the culture of philosophy / Jan Zwicky; title: A singular and representative life : personal memory and systematic harms / Sue Campbell.