Civilized Oppression and Moral Relations: Victims, Fallibility, and the Moral Community [Paperback]

This book discusses how civilized oppression (the oppression that involves neither violence nor the law) can be overcome by re-examining our participation in it. Moral community, solidarity and education are offered as vibrant strategies to overcome the hurt and marginalization that stem from civilized oppression.1. Introduction 2. Civilized Oppression 3. Gratitude Misplaced? 4. Moral Solidarity 5. Resisting Civilized Oppression 6. The Irreducibly Individual: Interactional Justice 7. The Irreducibly Individual: Authentic Social Justice 8. A Few Theoretical Connections 9. Fallibility, Support, and Moral Community

Admirers of Jean Harvey's earlier work will be fascinated to read Civilized Oppression and Moral Relations. Yet this new book also stands on its own and is an important development of Harvey's insights into the relationships among the agents of civilized oppression, their victims, and the bystanders who witness it. Drawing upon feminist philosophy, Harvey recognizes the 'shared fallibility' of agents, bystanders, and victims alike, and argues compellingly for the importance of personal relationships and moral solidarity as ways to resist civilized oppression. - Christine D. Overall, Queen's University, Canada

Combining careful analysis with compelling prose, Jean Harvey argues that communal togetherness informs obligations to learn, and to understand, how oppression functions in individual social relations. Harvey challenges us to recognize the fallible in ourselves and others even as she constructs the theoretical bulwark for a moral community. Civilized Oppression and Moral Relations offers a transforming vision of social justice essential for feminist social and political theory and practice.' - Sally J. Scholz, Villanova University, USA, and editor, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy

In this new book, Jean Harvey minimizes neither the harms of oppression nor the culpability of those who participate iló=