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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791140703321

Titolo

Philosophy imprisoned : the love of wisdom in the age of mass incarceration / / edited by Sarah Tyson and Joshua M. Hall ; Eric Anthamatten [and twenty others], contributors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; Plymouth, England : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4985-0071-4

0-7391-8948-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Disciplina

365.01

Soggetti

Prisons - Philosophy

Imprisonment - Philosophy

Prisons - Social aspects

Imprisonment - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Identity; 1 Reforming Me, Philosophy; 2 What's Wrong with Us?; 3 Emancipating the Carceral Subject; 4 Women Haters Club; 5 Criminal Masculinity; 6 Du Bois, Foucault, and Self-Torsion; 7 One Foot in Darkness; II: Community; 8 Prison from the Mind of a Prisoner; 9 Awakenings and Seductions; 10 Hegel Goes to Prison; 11 Unchained Melody; 12 Just Visiting; 13 Prisoners; 14 Organizing Dead Matter into Effective Energy; 15 Rehumanizing the Inmate; 16 Imagining the Spirit Free; 17 Cartesian Meditations; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span>Editors Sarah Tyson and Joshua M. Hall convene an international group of philosophical thinkers-from both inside and outside prison walls-who draw on a variety of historical figures and critical perspectives to think about prisons in our new historical era. </span></span>