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10. Lyotard and Thebaud, Just Gaming, 100.
Chapter 8
1. See Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (New York: Grove Press, 1967).
2. Richard H. Minear, “Yertle, Hitler, and Dr. Seuss” in Your Favorite Seuss: A Baker’s Dozen by the One and Only Dr. Seuss, ed. Janet Schulman and Cathy Goldsmith (New York: Random House, 2004), 190.
3. See Martin Buber, I and Thou, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Touchstone-Simon and Shuster, 1970).
4. Peggy McIntosh, “White Privilege and Male Privilege,” in Oppression, Privilege, and Resistance: Theoretical Perspectives on Racism, Sexism, and Heterosexism, ed. Lisa Heldke and Peg O’Connor (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2004), 320.
5. Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, xiv–xv.
6. Sandra Bartky, “On Psychological Oppression” in Oppression, Privilege, and Resistance: Theoretical Perspectives on Racism, Sexism, and Heterosexism,” ed. Lisa Heldke and Peg O’Connor (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2004), 31.
7. Bartky, “On Psychological Oppression,” 26.
8. Joyce Mitchell Cook, quoted in Bartky, “On Psychological Oppression,” 24.
9. Bartky, “On Psychological Oppression,” 24.
10. Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 30th Anniversary Edition (New York: Continuum, 2000), 44.
11. Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 44.
12. This inability to be heard is an example of what Jean-François Lyotard refers to as the Differend, a direct result of one’s voice not being communicable or audible in the authoritative or grand narrative. See Jean-François Lyotard, The Differend: Phrases in Dispute, trans. Georges Van Den Abbeele (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988). For a discussion of this issue in the present volume see Jacob M. Held, “On Beyond Modernity, or Conrad and a Postmodern Alphabet.”
13. Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from Birmingham City Jail,” in A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., ed. James M. Washington (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1986), 290.
14. King, “Letter from Birmingham City Jail,” 290.
15. Emma Lazarus, “New Colossus,” in Favorite Poems, Old and New, ed. Helen Ferris (New York: Doubleday-Delacorte, 1957), 448.
16. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights does receive criticism as being too Western due to its emphasis upon individual autonomy. For a detailed discussion, see Sor-Hoon Tan’s Confucian Democracy: A Deweyan Reconstruction (New York: SUNY Press, 2004).
17. John Dewey, “Creative Democracy: The Task before Us” in The Essential Dewey, Vol. 1: Pragmatism, Education, Democracy, ed. Larry A. Hickman and Thomas M. Alexander (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998), 341.
18. Dewey, “Creative Democracy: The Task before Us,” 342.
19. Anthony Weston, A 21st Century Ethical Toolbox, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 29.
Chapter 9
1. Mary Midgley, “Trying Out One’s New Sword,” in Contemporary Moral Problems, 9th ed., ed. James E. White (Belmont, Calif.: Thomson Wadsworth, 2009), 38.
2. For an interesting discussion on relativism, especially the notion that moral truths are only “true for me,” as well as relativism being a cowardly response to ethical inquiry, see Norman Melchert, Who’s to Say? A Dialogue on Relativism (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1994).
3. Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, trans. and ed. Mary Gregor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 53 [4:448].
4. See Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, trans. and ed. Mary Gregor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 26–27 [5:29–30].
5. Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Ethics, eds. Peter Heath and J. B. Schneewind, trans. Peter Heath (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 246 [29:631].
6. Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, 42 [4:435–36].
7. Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals, trans. and ed. Mary Gregor (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 209 [6:462].
8. Kant, Lectures on Ethics, 229 [29:605].
9. Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic