Civilization and Oppression (Canadian Journal of Philosophy) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0919491251 ISBN 13: 9780919491250

Publisher: Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 1999

Synopsis

This distinctive collection of essays explores the relationship between the growth and development of civilization and the forms of social and political oppression that civilization permits and encourages as well as the forms of oppression that civilized societies unmask and seek to relieve. It offers fresh insights into the thought of political philosophers, including Locke, Montesquieu, Marx, Kant, Mill, and Rawls as well as the postmodernist response of Foucault and his successors to the fact of the domination of human by human.

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Synopsis

This distinctive collection of essays explores the relationship between the growth and development of civilisation and the forms of social and political oppression that civilisation permits and encourages as well as the forms of oppression that civilised societies unmask and seek to relieve. It offers fresh insights into the thought of political philosophers, including Locke, Montesquieu, Marx, Kant, Mill, and Rawls as well as the postmodernist response of Foucault and his successors to the fact of the domination of human by human.

Edition details

• Publisher: Canadian Journal of Philosophy
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0919491251
• ISBN 13: 9780919491250
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294
• Editor: Wilson Catherine