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5Oppression and the Human Condition: An Introduction to Sartrean ExistentialismRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2002.Oppression and the Human Condition is both a valuable teaching tool and an insightful addition to scholarship on the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre. Students and teachers will find it an excellent and accessible introduction to Sartre's existentialism, ideal for courses in existentialist and 20th century philosophy. Equally, Sartre scholars will find that the book, especially the sections on oppression and "bad faith," gives them much to think about. Author Thomas Martin applies Sartre's philoso…Read more
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13An Argument for the Necessity of Craft Learning in Liberal EducationStudies in Philosophy and Education 42 (2): 163-179. 2023.This paper extends well-established arguments for the liberal potential of vocational education by advocating for the _necessity_ of craft learning in a liberal education curriculum. The case for the necessity of craft learning in liberal education is established in two parts, the first looking toward Aristotle and the second toward Heidegger. First, ideas from Aristotle are employed to articulate a vision of liberal education as that which supports the performance of our characteristic human ac…Read more
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3. Foucault writes: “It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion, or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality, it is produced permanently around, on, within the body by the functioning of a power that is exercised on those punished – and, in a more general way, on those one supervises, trains and corrects, over madmen, children at home and at school, the colonized, over those who are stuck at a machine and supervised for the rest of their lives.”.
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19Joshua Glasgow, A Theory of Race (New York: Routledge, 2009)Philosophical Papers 41 (1): 175-179. 2012.Philosophical Papers, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 175-179, March 2012.
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Pursuits of transcendence in The man who wasn't thereIn Jean-Pierre Boulé & Enda McCaffrey (eds.), Existentialism and contemporary cinema: a Sartrean perspective, Berghahn Books. 2011.
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