| Description |
xii, 212 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Getting into Prison -- Pt. 1. Power. 2. Fields of Force / Simone Weil. 3. Victim/Victimizer. 4. Hooked on Power / Friedrich Nietzsche. 5. Kind Power -- Pt. 2. Architecture. 6. Living in the Panopticon / Michael Foucault. 7. The Visible and the Invisible. 8. The Home That Is Not a Home / O. F. Bollnow. 9. Homecoming -- Pt. 3. Space and Time. 10. A Space Odyssey / Martin Heidegger. 11. Making Space. 12. Doing Time / Eugene Minkowski. 13. Redeeming Time -- Pt. 4. Sex and Race. 14. Sex Talk / Cornel West. 15. Who Am I? 16. Black, White, Jew / Cornel West. 17. Welcoming the Stranger -- Pt. 5. Journeys. 18. Heroes and Hoodlums / Joseph Campbell. 19. Gangster. 20. Violence and the Soul / Thomas Moore. 21. Guns and Voices -- Pt. 6. Beginnings and Endings. 22. The Turning / Martin Buber. 23. Getting Out of Prison. 24. Changing Selves / Malcolm X and Alex Haley. 25. Deaths and Births |
| Summary |
"Co-authored by inmates in a maximum security prison, The Soul Knows No Bars is a unique book. It explores the dynamics of power, violence, race, and sexuality, as well as the lights of spirit possible even in a prison cell. Texts from Nietzsche, Foucault, and other contemporary philosophers stimulate "lifers" to reflect on their experiences. Drew Leder's groundbreaking work has been featured in the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Chicago Tribune, and the national media."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Prisoners -- Education (Higher) -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Case studies.
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Philosophy -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Case studies.
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Prisoners -- Maryland -- Baltimore -- Intellectual life -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| LC no. |
99045670 |
| ISBN |
0847692906 cloth alkaline paper |
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