Cultural Domination

Cultural domination has received attention inside and outside of academia, but it remains under-explored in recent philosophical debate. To fill this gap, this book brings together ten original research contributions that engage the theme from a variety of different perspectives.

Thomas M. Besch is Luojia Professor of Philosophy at the School of Philosophy at Wuhan University, and Honorary Associate at the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney. He published widely on ideas of public reason and justification, and related ideas of respect and equality, including a monograph on political liberalism, Über John Rawls' politischen Liberalismus, and articles in journals like the Southern Journal of Philosophy, Philosophia, Social Theory and Practice, or The European Journal of Philosophy, among others. Harold Kincaid is a Senior Research Scholar in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of 15 books, most recently the Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Political Science. He has published widely on topics in the philosophy of science and social and behavioral sciences in journals such as Philosophy of Science, Synthese, and Philosophy of Social Science among others. Tarun Menon is an Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru. His publications on the philosophy of science have appeared in journals such as Philosophy of Science and European Journal for Philosophy of Science, among others. Raphael van Riel holds the Chair for Theoretical Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy, University of Duisburg-Essen. He has published on a variety of topics in the philosophy of science, metaphysics, and philosophy of language in journals such as Philosophy of Science, The Journal of Philosophy, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, and Synthese.

Introduction to Cultural domination: philosophical perspectives Thomas M. Besch, Raphael van Riel, Harold Kincaid, and Tarun Menon 1. Cultural and political domination: a groundwork analysis Mira Bachvarova and Margaret Moore 2. Public justification, political values, and domination Thomas M. Besch 3. The Nordic Racial Hygiene Studies: science, reactivity and cultural domination Marion Godman 4. Philosophy of science issues in cultural domination Harold Kincaid 5. Culture as a form of structural domination Heiner Koch 6. Domination, culture, and identity in republican theory Frank Lovett 7. The causal structure of cultural domination Tarun Menon 8. Settler colonialism and the cultural domination of Indigenous peoples Paul Patton 9. On the relation between hegemony and domination Raphael van Riel 10. The physiology of cultural domination: male privilege and women's health Shannon Sullivan.