UID:
almahu_9949702377702882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004458956
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9789042002715
Series Statement:
Value Inquiry Book Series ; 49
Content:
The essays in this volume explore in detail many of the ways power structures our daily personal, political and intellectual lives, and evaluate the workings of power using a variety of theoretical paradigms, from Hobbesian liberalism to Foucauldian feminist postmodernism. Taken as a whole, the book aims towards an end to unjust and destructive uses of power and the flowering of an encouraging, educated empowerment for all human beings in a pluralistic world. Section I offers a progressive chain of arguments that moves from the acceptance of domination, through the rejection of domination and, finally, to a new vision of power based on equality and mutual respect. Section II explores the questions, how is the philosophical self, that is, our very understanding of who we are, implicated in the web of power and domination? Section III responds to political realism as it explores morally ideal solutions to the global problems of poverty, war and hunger. Section IV discusses ways in which our thought and practice in both public and private life are bound up in hierarchies of domination.
Note:
Preliminary Material --
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Editorial Foreword --
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Preface /
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Acknowledgments /
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Introduction /
,
Domination and Other Kinds of Power /
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The Violence of Domination and the Power of Nonviolence /
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Hannah Arendt on Power /
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The Corrupting Influence of Power /
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Introduction /
,
Physical Education for Domination and Emancipation: A Foucauldian Analysis of Aerobics and Hatha Yoga /
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Eschatological Ethics and Positive Peace: Western Contributions to the Critique of the Self-Centered Ego and Its Social Manifestations /
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Power Imbalance and Human Worth /
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Plato's Solution to the Problem of Political Corruption /
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The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth? Deception and the Educative Ideal of Politics /
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Introduction /
,
Power and Poverty: The Prospects for World Peace /
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The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Starve: Is There an Ethical Alternative? /
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Future Generations and Moral Duties /
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Assuming Power: Liberal Peace Advocacy in the U.S. and Germany /
,
A Kantian Critique of Machiavelli's "Ethic of Power" /
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Introduction /
,
Preparing to Think about Power and Domination: Locating Errors that Perpetuate Injustice /
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Malcolm X's Rejection of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Nonviolence /
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Throwing Pearls to the Swine: Women, Forgiveness, and the Unrepentent Abuser /
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Educational Responses to Tailhook /
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Burning Crosses, Political Expression, and the First Amendment: The Case of R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul /
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Mothers, Birthgivers, and Peacemakers: The Need for an Inclusive Account /
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Reference Bibliography /
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About the Authors /
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Index /
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Value Inquiry Book Series /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Philosophical Perspectives on Power and Domination : Theories and Practices. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 1997 ISBN 9789042002715
Language:
English
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