Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE: THE DOMINATOR -- 1 A Universal Discourse -- Historical Truths -- The Laws of Nature -- The Will of God -- The Imperatives of Knowledge -- The Criteria of Art -- The Force of Language -- 2 The Language of Objectivity -- Religion and Sin -- Law and Crime -- Science and Anomaly -- The Implicit Rules of Discourse -- PART TWO: THE DOMINATED -- 3 Alienation -- The Body as Object -- The Oppressed as Abstraction -- A Pedagogy of Guilt -- 4 Emancipation -- Reconsidering the Dominant Discourse -- Stages of Emancipation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Thematic Bibliography.