Ideology, Rationality, and Revolution : An Essay on the Persistence of Oppression

This essay is concerned with two explanations of why oppressive social orders persist. According to the first, the so-called gunman theory of oppression (GT), these social orders persist because the oppressed are afraid being punished if they participated in a revolt. According to the second, the so...

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Main Author: Olsson-Yaouzis, Nicolas
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Filosofiska institutionen 2012
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-76372
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