Download or read book Civilization and Oppression written by Catherine Wilson and published by Calgary : University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the positive and negative relationship of civilization, taken in its broadest sense, to the oppression of the weak by the powerful. A set of distinctive essays offers fresh insights into the thought of political philosophers, including Locke, Montesquieu, Marx, Kant, Mill and Rawls, into the epistemology and psychology of subjection and into the postmodernist response of Foucault and his successors to the fact of the domination of human by human.