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...
Main Author: | Olsson-Yaouzis, Nicolas |
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Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
Language: | English |
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Stockholms universitet, Filosofiska institutionen
2012
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Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-76372 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7447-532-6 |
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