The Soul Knows No Bars

by Leder, Drew

• ISBN13: 9780742512474
• ISBN10: 0742512479
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-21
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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.

Author Biography

Drew Leder, M.D., Ph.D., is professor of Eastern and Western philosophy at Loyola College in Maryland

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Getting into Prison	1	(12)
PART ONE--POWER
Fields of Force	13	(8)
``The Iliad, Poem of Might''
Simone Weil
Victim/Victimizer	21	(4)
Hooked on Power	25	(8)
A Nietzsche Reader
Rriedrich Nietzsche
Kind Power	33	(8)
PART TWO--ARCHITECTURE
Living in the Panopticon	41	(8)
Discipline and Punish
Michael Foucault
The Visible and the Invisible	49	(6)
The Home That Is Not a Home	55	(8)
``Lived-Space''
O.F. Bollnow
Homecoming	63	(8)
PART THREE--SPACE AND TIME
A Space Odyssey	71	(8)
Being and Time
Martin Heidegger
Making Space	79	(6)
Doing Time	85	(8)
Lived Time
Eugene Minkowski
Redeeming Time	93	(18)
PART FOUR--SEX AND RACE
Sex Talk	111	(1)
Race Matters
Cornel West
Who Am I?	111	(18)
Black, White, Jew
Race Matters
Cornel West
Welcoming the Stranger	129	(8)
PART FIVE--JOURNEYS
Heroes and Hoodlums	137	(8)
The Power of Myth
Joseph Campbell
Gangster	145	(6)
Violence and the Soul	151	(6)
Care of the Soul
Thomas Moore
Guns and Voices	157	(8)
PART SIX--BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS
The Turning	165	(8)
The Way of Man According to the Teachings of Hasidism
Martin Buber
Getting Out of Prison	173	(10)
Changing Selves	183	(8)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Alex Haley
Deaths and Births	191	(12)
Appendix--Notes on Method	203	(4)
References	207	(2)
Index	209	(3)
About the Author	212