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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, GBR
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Stories of oppression and appeals to freedom -- Explanation and understanding in politicalphilosophy -- Third-person stories of culture: the...
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Stories of oppression and appeals to freedom -- Explanation and understanding in politicalphilosophy -- Third-person stories of culture: the poststructuralistsand barbara smith -- The failures of marxism and critical theory: jameson, said, and habermas -- 2 Language, ethics, and subjectivity in the liberal/communitarian debate -- Histories of philosophy -- Language, ethics, and subjectivity -- The virtues of traditions -- Summing up and looking forward -- 3 Theorizing narratives of agency and subjection -- Language, ethics, and the subject in critical dialogue -- Ethics and gender: achievement, oppression, difference -- Conclusion -- 4 Truth, beauty, and goodness in James's The Ambassadors -- 5 The subject of democracy in the work of Ralph Ellison -- Agents and constructs in racial politics -- Traditions and genealogies in democratic interpretation -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
