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The Politics of Moralizing

By Jane Bennett; Michael J. Shapiro

Book information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Year
2002
ISBN
9781136705458, 9780415934770
LCC
BJ301 -- .P65 2002eb
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1395511 bytes)
Pages
255\0
Time added
2023-08-05 14:08:58
Political Anthropology

Description

The Politics of Moralizing issues a stern warning about the risks of speaking, writing, and thinking in a manner too confident about one's own judgments and asks, "Can a clear line be drawn between dogmatism and simple certainty and indignation?" Bennett and Shapiro enter the debate by questioning what has become a popular, even pervasive, cultural narrative told by both the left and the right: the story of the West's moral decline, degeneration, or confusion. Contributors explore the dynamics and dilemmas of moralizing by advocates of patriotism, environmental protection, and women's rights while arguing that the current discourse gives free license to self-aggrandizement, cruelty, vengeance and punitiveness and a generalized resistance to or abjection of diversity.

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