The Politics of Moralizing (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bennett, Jane; Shapiro, Michael J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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, "e;Can a clear line be drawn between dogmatism and simple certainty and indignation?"e; 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136705526
• Artikelnr.: 39911955

Autorenporträt

Michael Shapiro is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii. Jane Bennett is Professor of Political Science at Goucher College.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Jane Bennett and Michael J. Shapiro
The Moraline Drift
Jane Bennett
Generating a Virtuous Circle: Democratic Identity
Moralism
and the Languages of Political Responsibility
Alan Keenan
Political not Patriotic: Democracy
Civic space
and the American Memorial/Monument Complex
Steven Johnston
Autobiography and Cultivating the Arts of the Female Self
Ann Curthoys
The Tragedy of the Ethical Commons: Demoralizing Environmentalism
William Chaloupka
Out for a Walk
Helen Liggett
Just the facts
Please: Why Civil Society Does Not Need Moral Truths
Jill Locke
The challenge of Polytheism: Moses
Spinoza and Freud
John Docker
Affirming the Political: Tragic Affirmations vs. Gothic Displacements
Michael J. Shapiro
Contributors