Philosophy Imprisoned (eBook, ePUB)

The Love of Wisdom in the Age of Mass Incarceration
Redaktion: Tyson, Sarah; Hall, Joshua M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Western philosophy's relationship with prisons stretches from Plato's own incarceration to the modern era of mass incarceration. Philosophy Imprisoned: The Love of Wisdom in the Age of Mass Incarceration draws together a broad range of philosophical thinkers, from both inside and outside prison walls, in the United States and beyond, who draw on a variety of critical perspectives (including phenomenology, deconstruction, and feminist theory) and historical and contemporary figures in philosophy (including Kant, Hegel, Foucault, and Angela Davis) to think about prisons in this new historical era. All of these contributors have experiences within prison walls: some are or have been incarcerated, some have taught or are teaching in prisons, and all have been students of both philosophy and the carceral system. The powerful testimonials and theoretical arguments are appropriate reading not only for philosophers and prison theorists generally, but also for prison reformers and abolitionists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739189481
• Artikelnr.: 41459087

Autorenporträt

Sarah Tyson is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Denver. Joshua M. Hall is visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Samford University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Identity
1. Reforming Me, Philosophy, Timothy Greenlee
2. What's Wrong with Us?: Outsider Ethics and Mass Incarceration, Chris
Lenn
3. Emancipating the Carceral Subject: A Propaedeutic to an Integrated
Prison Pedagogy, John Douglas Macready
4. Women Haters Club: Maximized Misogyny in Men's Prisons and Its Tie to
the Patriarchy, Anders "Andy" Benander, III
5. Criminal Masculinity: Male Prisons and the Construction of Gender,
Natalie Cisneros
6. Du Bois, Foucault, and Self-Torsion: Criterion of Imprisoned Art, Joshua
M. Hall
7. One Foot in Darkness, Spoon Jackson
Part Two: Community
8. A Prisoner's Perspective on Prison, Arlando "Tray" Jones III
9. Awakenings and Seductions: Text, Literacy and the Lived Experience of
Fathers in Prison, William Muth and Ginger Walker
10. Hegel Goes to Prison: Punishment, Education, and Mutual Recognition,
Eric Anthamatten
11. Unchained Melody: Philosophical Reflections from the Working Classics
Program, Michael DeWilde with students Abigail DeHart, Katie Stefanek and
Emily Stroka
12. Just Visiting: Epistemic Obstacles to Justice on Death Row, Lisa McLeod
13. Prisoners: "They're Animals" and Their Animals, Drew Leder with Vincent
Greco
14. Organizing Dead Matter into Effective Energy, Andre Pierce
15. Re-humanizing the Inmate: Wacquant on Race-making, Sequestered Spaces,
and the Quest for a "We" Narrative, Cynthia Nielsen
16. Free Spirit in the House of the Dead, Atif Rafay
17. Cartesian Meditations: Voice, Body, Mind and Prison, Aislinn O'Donnell
and Anonymous Contributors