Author: Simone Weil
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415255608
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Discussing political and social oppression, its permanent causes, the way it works and its contemporary form, this volume of Simone Weil's writings offers thought-provoking ideas on political theory.
Oppression and Liberty
Author: Simone Weil
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415254078
Category : Liberty
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
In this remarkable work, Weil analyses the causes of oppression, its mechanisms and forms, and questions revolutionary responses while presenting a prophetic view of a way forward.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415254078
Category : Liberty
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
In this remarkable work, Weil analyses the causes of oppression, its mechanisms and forms, and questions revolutionary responses while presenting a prophetic view of a way forward.
Algorithms of Oppression
Author: Safiya Umoja Noble
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479837245
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the power of algorithms -- A society, searching -- Searching for Black girls -- Searching for people and communities -- Searching for protections from search engines -- The future of knowledge in the public -- The future of information culture -- Conclusion: algorithms of oppression -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479837245
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the power of algorithms -- A society, searching -- Searching for Black girls -- Searching for people and communities -- Searching for protections from search engines -- The future of knowledge in the public -- The future of information culture -- Conclusion: algorithms of oppression -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author
The Subject of Liberty
Author: Nancy J. Hirschmann
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400825369
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This book reconsiders the dominant Western understandings of freedom through the lens of women's real-life experiences of domestic violence, welfare, and Islamic veiling. Nancy Hirschmann argues that the typical approach to freedom found in political philosophy severely reduces the concept's complexity, which is more fully revealed by taking such practical issues into account. Hirschmann begins by arguing that the dominant Western understanding of freedom does not provide a conceptual vocabulary for accurately characterizing women's experiences. Often, free choice is assumed when women are in fact coerced--as when a battered woman who stays with her abuser out of fear or economic necessity is said to make this choice because it must not be so bad--and coercion is assumed when free choices are made--such as when Westerners assume that all veiled women are oppressed, even though many Islamic women view veiling as an important symbol of cultural identity. Understanding the contexts in which choices arise and are made is central to understanding that freedom is socially constructed through systems of power such as patriarchy, capitalism, and race privilege. Social norms, practices, and language set the conditions within which choices are made, determine what options are available, and shape our individual subjectivity, desires, and self-understandings. Attending to the ways in which contexts construct us as "subjects" of liberty, Hirschmann argues, provides a firmer empirical and theoretical footing for understanding what freedom means and entails politically, intellectually, and socially.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400825369
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
This book reconsiders the dominant Western understandings of freedom through the lens of women's real-life experiences of domestic violence, welfare, and Islamic veiling. Nancy Hirschmann argues that the typical approach to freedom found in political philosophy severely reduces the concept's complexity, which is more fully revealed by taking such practical issues into account. Hirschmann begins by arguing that the dominant Western understanding of freedom does not provide a conceptual vocabulary for accurately characterizing women's experiences. Often, free choice is assumed when women are in fact coerced--as when a battered woman who stays with her abuser out of fear or economic necessity is said to make this choice because it must not be so bad--and coercion is assumed when free choices are made--such as when Westerners assume that all veiled women are oppressed, even though many Islamic women view veiling as an important symbol of cultural identity. Understanding the contexts in which choices arise and are made is central to understanding that freedom is socially constructed through systems of power such as patriarchy, capitalism, and race privilege. Social norms, practices, and language set the conditions within which choices are made, determine what options are available, and shape our individual subjectivity, desires, and self-understandings. Attending to the ways in which contexts construct us as "subjects" of liberty, Hirschmann argues, provides a firmer empirical and theoretical footing for understanding what freedom means and entails politically, intellectually, and socially.
Liberty for Latin America
Author: Alvaro Vargas Llosa
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466893737
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Latin America's Foremost Political Journalist Makes a Brilliant and Passionate Argument for Real Reform In the Economically Crippled Continent In Liberty for Latin America, Alvaro Vargas Llosa offers an incisive diagnosis of Latin America's woes--and a prescription for finally getting the region on the road to both genuine prosperity and the protection of human rights. When the economy in Argentina--at one time a model of free-market reform--collapsed in 2002, experts of all persuasions asked: What went wrong? Vargas Llosa shows that what went wrong in Argentina has in fact gone wrong all over the continent for over five hundred years. He explains how the republics of the nineteenth century and the revolutions of the twentieth-populist uprisings, Marxist coops, state takeovers, and First World-sponsored privatization-have all run up against the oligarchic legacy of statism. Illiberal elites backed by the United States and Europe have perpetuated what he calls the "five principles of oppression" in order to maintain their hold on power. The region has become "a laboratory for political and economic suicide," while comparable countries in Asia and Eastern Europe have prospered. The only way to change things in Latin America, Vargas Llosa argues, is to remove the five principles of oppression, genuinely reforming institutions and the underlying culture for the benefit of the disempowered public. In Liberty for Latin America, he explains how, offering hope as well as insight for all those who care for the future of this troubled region.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466893737
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Latin America's Foremost Political Journalist Makes a Brilliant and Passionate Argument for Real Reform In the Economically Crippled Continent In Liberty for Latin America, Alvaro Vargas Llosa offers an incisive diagnosis of Latin America's woes--and a prescription for finally getting the region on the road to both genuine prosperity and the protection of human rights. When the economy in Argentina--at one time a model of free-market reform--collapsed in 2002, experts of all persuasions asked: What went wrong? Vargas Llosa shows that what went wrong in Argentina has in fact gone wrong all over the continent for over five hundred years. He explains how the republics of the nineteenth century and the revolutions of the twentieth-populist uprisings, Marxist coops, state takeovers, and First World-sponsored privatization-have all run up against the oligarchic legacy of statism. Illiberal elites backed by the United States and Europe have perpetuated what he calls the "five principles of oppression" in order to maintain their hold on power. The region has become "a laboratory for political and economic suicide," while comparable countries in Asia and Eastern Europe have prospered. The only way to change things in Latin America, Vargas Llosa argues, is to remove the five principles of oppression, genuinely reforming institutions and the underlying culture for the benefit of the disempowered public. In Liberty for Latin America, he explains how, offering hope as well as insight for all those who care for the future of this troubled region.
The Simone Weil Reader
Author: Simone Weil
Publisher: Moyer Bell
ISBN: 9780918825018
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The immediate and guiding aim of this book is to introduce the contemporary reader to the work and thought of Simone Weil.
Publisher: Moyer Bell
ISBN: 9780918825018
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The immediate and guiding aim of this book is to introduce the contemporary reader to the work and thought of Simone Weil.
Oppression and Liberty
Author: Simone Weil
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415255608
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Discussing political and social oppression, its permanent causes, the way it works and its contemporary form, this volume of Simone Weil's writings offers thought-provoking ideas on political theory.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415255608
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Discussing political and social oppression, its permanent causes, the way it works and its contemporary form, this volume of Simone Weil's writings offers thought-provoking ideas on political theory.
The Works of William H. Seward
Author: William Henry Seward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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Democracy and Government
Author: Samuel Peterson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Year Book
Author: Sunset Club (Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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The Commons
Author: John Palmer Gavit
Publisher:
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Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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