Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Editorial Foreword -- Preface / Laura Duhan Kaplan and Laurence F. Bove -- Acknowledgments / Laura Duhan Kaplan and Laurence F. Bove -- Introduction / Laura Duhan Kaplan and Laurence F. Bove -- Domination and Other Kinds of Power / Robert Litke -- The Violence of Domination and the Power of Nonviolence / William C. Gay -- Hannah Arendt on Power / Gail M. Presbey -- The Corrupting Influence of Power / Maria Morales -- Introduction / Laura Duhan Kaplan and Laurence F. Bove -- Physical Education for Domination and Emancipation: A Foucauldian Analysis of Aerobics and Hatha Yoga / Laura Duhan Kaplan -- Eschatological Ethics and Positive Peace: Western Contributions to the Critique of the Self-Centered Ego and Its Social Manifestations / Glen T. Martin -- Power Imbalance and Human Worth / Jerald Richards -- Plato's Solution to the Problem of Political Corruption / Judith Presler -- The Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth? Deception and the Educative Ideal of Politics / Marc Stier -- Introduction / Laura Duhan Kaplan and Laurence F. Bove -- Power and Poverty: The Prospects for World Peace / Bernard R. Boxill -- The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Starve: Is There an Ethical Alternative? / Joseph C. Kunkel -- Future Generations and Moral Duties / Michael Howard -- Assuming Power: Liberal Peace Advocacy in the U.S. and Germany / Barbara A. Thiede -- A Kantian Critique of Machiavelli's "Ethic of Power" / David J. Ulbrich -- Introduction / Laura Duhan Kaplan and Laurence F. Bove -- Preparing to Think about Power and Domination: Locating Errors that Perpetuate Injustice / Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich -- Malcolm X's Rejection of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Nonviolence / Laurence F. Bove -- Throwing Pearls to the Swine: Women, Forgiveness, and the Unrepentent Abuser / Judith A. Boss -- Educational Responses to Tailhook / David E. Johnson -- Burning Crosses, Political Expression, and the First Amendment: The Case of R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul / Amy Ihlan -- Mothers, Birthgivers, and Peacemakers: The Need for an Inclusive Account / Alison Bailey -- Reference Bibliography / Laura Duhan Kaplan and Laurence F. Bove -- About the Authors / Laura Duhan Kaplan and Laurence F. Bove -- Index / Laura Duhan Kaplan and Laurence F. Bove -- Value Inquiry Book Series / Laura Duhan Kaplan and Laurence F. Bove.

The essays in this volume explore in detail many of the ways power structures our daily personal, political and intellectual lives, and evaluate the workings of power using a variety of theoretical paradigms, from Hobbesian liberalism to Foucauldian feminist postmodernism. Taken as a whole, the book aims towards an end to unjust and destructive uses of power and the flowering of an encouraging, educated empowerment for all human beings in a pluralistic world. Section I offers a progressive chain of arguments that moves from the acceptance of domination, through the rejection of domination and, finally, to a new vision of power based on equality and mutual respect. Section II explores the questions, how is the philosophical self, that is, our very understanding of who we are, implicated in the web of power and domination? Section III responds to political realism as it explores morally ideal solutions to the global problems of poverty, war and hunger. Section IV discusses ways in which our thought and practice in both public and private life are bound up in hierarchies of domination.

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