The Twenty-First Century and Its Discontents

How Changing Discourse Norms are Changing Culture
Herausgeber: Simmons, Jack

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Philosophers and political theorists tackle the question of cultural transformation in the twenty-first century and the role discourse norms play in producing cancel culture, a counter-sexual revolution, racism and a toxic politics that has left the nation feeling vulnerable and angry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 579g
• ISBN-13: 9781793607997
• ISBN-10: 1793607990
• Artikelnr.: 60155679

Autorenporträt

Jack Simmons is professor of philosophy at Georgia Southern University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Institutional Discourse
Chapter 1: The Outsourcing of Ethical Thinking, Erik Nordenhaug and Jack
Simmons
Chapter 2: The Diversity of "Diversity": Support for Differing Conceptions
of Diversity on the University Campus, Kenneth B. McIntyre and Stacy G.
Ulbig
Chapter 3: Undermining Communicative Action in the Medical Encounter:
Informed Consent, Compelled Speech, and Promises to Pay, Leigh E. Rich
Chapter 4: Sexual Consent and the Return to Canonical Love, Jack Simmons
Part 2: Tribal Discourse
Chapter 5: The Social Justice Discourse Ethics, Robert Gressis
Chapter 6: Dealing with the Devil, Stacy Ulbig
Chapter 7: From "Post-Racial America" to #BlackLivesMatter: Rethinking Race
for the Twenty-first Century, Elizabeth Butterfield
Part 3: The Pandemic
Chapter 8: Lessons From the Death Zone: What Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air
Can Teach Us About the COVID-19 Pandemic and Why We May Be Doomed to Repeat
It, Leigh E. Rich
Chapter 9: Strategic Discourse in the Time of the Coronavirus, Robert
Gressis