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The soul knows no bars : inmates reflect on life, death, and hope / Drew Leder, with Charles Baxter ... [and others].
Van Pelt Library HV8883.3.U52 M35 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leder, Drew.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisoners--Education (Higher)--Maryland--Baltimore--Case studies.
- Prisoners.
- Philosophy--Study and teaching (Higher)--Maryland--Baltimore--Case studies.
- Philosophy.
- Prisoners--Maryland--Baltimore--Intellectual life--Case studies.
- Intellectual life.
- Philosophy--Study and teaching (Higher).
- Prisoners--Education (Higher).
- Maryland--Baltimore.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 212 pages, 13 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2000]
- Summary:
- The Soul Knows No Bars is a unique book, co-authored by Drew Leder, and inmates at the Maryland State Penitentiary. Taking off from the texts by Foucault, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Buber, Cornel West, and others, the men speak of the impact within their lives of power, violence, sexual and racial identity, incarceration, and the liberation of spirit possible even in a maximum-security cell.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Power
- 2 Fields of Force 13
- "The Iliad, Poem of Might" / Simone Weil
- 3 Victim/Victimizer 21
- 4 Hooked on Power 25
- A Nietzsche Reader / Friedrich Nietzsche
- 5 Kind Power 33
- Part 2 Architecture
- 6 Living in the Panopticon 41
- Discipline and Punish / Michel Foucault
- 7 The Visible and the Invisible 49
- 8 The Home That Is Not a Home 55
- "Lived-Space" / O. F. Bollnow
- 9 Homecoming 63
- Part 3 Space and Time
- 10 A Space Odyssey 71
- Being and Time / Martin Heidegger
- 11 Making Space 79
- 12 Doing Time 85
- Lived Time / Eugene Minkowski
- 13 Redeeming Time 93
- Part 4 Sex and Race
- 14 Sex Talk 101
- Race Matters / Cornel West
- 15 Who Am I? 111
- 16 Black, White, Jew 117
- 17 Welcoming the Stranger 129
- Part 5 Journeys
- 18 Heroes and Hoodlums 137
- The Power of Myth / Joseph Campbell
- 19 Gangster 145
- 20 Violence and the Soul 151
- Care of the Soul / Thomas Moore
- 21 Guns and Voices 157
- Part 6 Beginnings and Endings
- 22 The Turning 165
- The Way of Man According to the Teachings of Hasidism / Martin Buber
- 23 Getting Out of Prison 173
- 24 Changing Selves 183
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X / Malcolm X with Alex Haley
- 25 Deaths and Births 191.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0847692906
- OCLC:
- 42296705
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