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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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Civilization and Oppression Canadian Journal of Philosophy. Supplementary Volume ; 25
author
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Misak, C. J.
publisher
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University of Calgary Press
isbn10 | asin
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0919491251
print isbn13
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9780919491250
ebook isbn13
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9780585289052
language
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English
subject
Oppression (Psychology) , Equality, Social classes.
publication date
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1999
lcc
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HM146.C58 1999eb
ddc
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305
subject
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Oppression (Psychology) , Equality, Social classes.
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Civilization and Oppression
Edited by Catherine Wilson
ISSN 0229-7051
ISBN 0-919491-25-1
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1999 The Canadian Journal of Philosophy ISBN 0-919491-25-1 ISSN 0229-7051 CJP Supplementary Volume 25 (1999)
University of Calgary Press 2500 University Drive NW Calgary, Alberta Canada T2N 1N4
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Main entry under title: Civilization and oppression
(CJP. Supplementary volume, ISSN 0229-7051; 25) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-919491-25-1
1. Oppression (Psychology). 2. Equality. 3. Social classes. I. Wilson, Catherine (1951-). II. Series: Canadian journal of philosophy. Supplementary volume; 25. HM146.C58 1999 305 C99-910816-6
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Table of Contents
Introduction Social Inequality: Rousseau in Retrospect
Catherine Wilson
1
Lockean Money, Indigenism and Globalism
Naomi Zack
31
Vico and Montesquieu: Limits of Pluralist Imagination
Bhikhu Parekh
55
Millian Liberalism and Colonial Oppression
D.G. Brown
79
Sublime Waste: Kant on the Destiny of the 'Races'
Mark Larrimore
99
Time, Modernity, and Destructive Habits of Thought
Oliver Leaman
127
Subjecthood and Self-Determination: The Limitations of Postmodernism as Democratic Theory
Jeff Noonan
147
Justice Theory and Oppression
J. Harvey
171
Epistemic Oppression and Epistemic Privilege
Miranda Fricker
191
Freud's Metapsychology and the Culture of Philosophy
Jan Zwicky
211
A Singular and Representative Life: Personal Memory and Systematic Harms
Sue Campbell
227
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Bibliography
259
Notes on Contributors
275
Index
277
Page 1
Introduction Social Inequality: Rousseau in Retrospect
Catherine Wilson
"As long as men were content with their rustic huts," Rousseau declared in the Discourse Concerning the Origins of Inequality of 1755, "as long as they were limited to sewing their clothes of skins with thorns or fishbones, adorning themselves with feathers and shells, painting their bodies with various colors, perfecting or embellishing their bows and arrows.... in a word as long as they applied themselves only to tasks that a single person could do and to tasks that did not require the cooperation of several hands, they lived free, healthy, good and happy insofar as this could be according to their Nature."1 But with settlement in groups and the establishment of agriculture, the species began its steep descent into servitude for the majority, profiteering, diseases of body and mind, insincerity, and the bloom of pride and all the artificial emotions. Man became subservient to master, and Rousseau was bitterly certain male to female, through the invention of the factitious sentiment of love.
Rousseau rightly waved away the question whether we should return to the forest to live like bears as immeasurably stupid and ill-willed. Today no one doubts that impersonal and legalistic bureaucratic organization and the faster, more widespread, and more ingenious transformation of raw materials into material productions have brought
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