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Civilized Oppression
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (1999-10)
ISBN: 0847692752
EAN: 9780847692750
Dewey Decimal #: 305
Paperback: 167 pages
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Silenced, discredited, stripped of powers of moral appeal, and deprived of the interpersonal conditions necessary for maintaining self-respect, many people suffer from serious but subtle forms of oppression involving neither physical violence nor the use of law. In Civillized Oppression J.Harvey forcefully argues for the crucial role of morally distorted relationships in such oppression. While uncovering a set of underlying moral principles that account for the immorality of civilized oppression, Harvey's analyses provide frameworks for identifying morally problematic situations and relationships, criteria for evaluating them, and guidelines for appropriate responses.This book will be essential for both graduates and undergraduates in ethics, social theory, theory of justice, and feminist and race studies.
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Customer Reviews
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Profound Insight
Rating  (5)
Date: 2000-10-08
6 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
The title of Harvey's book refers to something insidious in our so-called civilized societies.Harvey's focus is on human relationships. She is not concerned with long lasting relationships between partners or family members, but the relationships that exist between all of us as members of a moral community. She deconstructs with incredible insight the ways the privileged oppress the unprivileged. My short explanation of Harvey's work does no justice to it. It seems simple and perhaps common. But I assure the work is neither of those things. This book, I think, is one of the best books in ethics to come in recent times. There are parts where she struggles with arguments, but I think Harvey's points are essentially right. "Civilized Oppression" is a must for all people who like to think themselves as moral. I think everyone should read it.
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