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Civilization and oppression

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Explores the positive and negative relationship of civilization, taken in its broadest sense, to the oppression of the weak by the powerful. A set of distinctive essays offers fresh insights into the thought of political philosophers, including Locke, Montesquieu, Marx, …

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Explores the positive and negative relationship of civilization, taken in its broadest sense, to the oppression of the weak by the powerful. A set of distinctive essays offers fresh insights into the thought of political philosophers, including Locke, Montesquieu, Marx, Kant, Mill and Rawls, into the epistemology and psychology of subjection and into the postmodernist response of Foucault and his successors to the fact of the domination of human by human.

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"Explores the positive and negative relationship of civilization, taken in its broadest sense, to the oppression of the weak by the powerful. A set of distinctive essays offers fresh insights …"

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