Philosophical Perspectives on Power and Domination: Theories and PracticesLaura Duhan Kaplan, Laurence F. Bove Rodopi, 1997 - 319 страници 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. |
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THREE Hannah Arendt on Power | 29 |
FOUR The Corrupting Influence of Power | 41 |
Introduction | 57 |
SEVEN Power Imbalance and Human Worth | 93 |
EIGHT Platos Solution to the Problem of Political Corruption | 107 |
NINE The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth? | 115 |
TWELVE Future Generations and Moral Duties | 175 |
Liberal Peace Advocacy | 181 |
FOURTEEN A Kantian Critique of Machiavellis Ethic of Power | 199 |
Introduction | 211 |
EIGHTEEN Educational Responses to Tailhook | 249 |
NINETEEN Burning Crosses Political Expression and the First | 263 |
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About the Authors | 309 |
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