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Oppression and Responsibility: A Wittgensteinian Approach to Social Practices and Moral Theory

Oppression and Responsibility: A Wittgensteinian Approach to Social Practices and Moral Theory

O'Connor, Peg

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0271023465
ISBN13: 9780271023465
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Oct 15 2003
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.92 Depth: 9.28
Language: English

Combating homophobia, racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination and violence in our society requires more than just focusing on the overt acts of prejudiced and abusive individuals. The very intelligibility of such acts, in fact, depends upon a background of shared beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors that together form the context of social practices in which these acts come to have the meaning they do. This book, inspired by Wittgenstein as well as feminist and critical race theory, shines a critical light on this background in order to show that we all share more responsibility for the persistence of oppressive social practices than we commonly suppose--or than traditional moral theories that connect responsibility just with the actions, rights, and liberties of individuals would lead us to believe.

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