Communities of Peace: Confronting Injustice and Creating Justice. (Value Inquiry Book Series)

✍ Scribed by Danielle Poe

• Publisher: Rodopi
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 113
• Series: Value Inquiry Book Series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume examines the many ways in which violence, domination, and oppression manifest themselves. This examination opens the way to creative suggestions for overcoming injustice. The authors in this volume also describe the features of a just community and inspire readers to implement peaceful transformation.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
......Page 4
Copyright Page
......Page 5
Table of Contents
......Page 8
EDITORIAL FOREWORD......Page 10
PREFACE......Page 12
INTRODUCTION:......Page 13
ONE Community and Diversity......Page 15
TWO From Scaffold to Prison to Nursery: The Shame of Punishment
......Page 21
THREE Repressive Justice: Marcuse, Adorno, and the American Attempt to Live Wrong Life Rightly
......Page 34
FOUR Intersectionality and Love......Page 46
FIVE Moral Conviction and Disagreement: Getting beyond Negative Toleration
......Page 53
SIX In Support of the Girls from ‘Round Here: Black Feminist Reflections on the Utility of Rage for Building Communities of Support
......Page 62
SEVEN A Sketch of the Moral Responsibility to Engage Oppressors
......Page 71
EIGHT The Radical Praxis of Teaching for a Just Community: Marcuse and Kristeva on Liberating the Subject
......Page 81
WORKS CITED......Page 91
ABOUT THE AUTHORS......Page 98
INDEX......Page 101