Michael Novak

Unmeltable Ethnics (eBook, ePUB)

Politics and Culture in American Life

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This new, enlarged edition of an influential book originally published in 1972 as The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnicsextends the author's wise and generous view of ethnicity. Its aim "is to raise consciousness about a crucial part of the American experience: to involve each reader in self-inquiry. Who, after all, are you? What history brought you to where you are? Why are you different from others?" But the point of such inquiry is civility: "The new ethnic consciousness embodied in this book delights in recognition of subtle differences in the movements of the soul. It is not a call to separatism but to self-consciousness. It does not seek division but rather accurate, mutual appreciation."

This new edition contains six new essays by the author, including the acclaimed "Pluralism: A Humanistic Perspective." New, too, is Novak's comprehensive introduction, bringing the argument up to date. Novak describes how and why ethnicity has become a prominent issue in American politics. He also sharply denounces the current ideology of "multiculturalism" as a disfiguration of genuine ethnicity. "Multiculturalism is moved by the eros of Narcissus" Novak writes, "the new ethnicity is driven by the eros of unrestricted understanding."

When the book first appeared, Time said that "Novak has attacked the American Dream in order to open up a possible second chapter for it." Newsweek called it "a tough-minded, provocative book which could well signal an important change in American politics."

This new edition adds crucial distinctions for those seeking an intelligent path through such current-day mystifications as "multiculturalism" and "diversity." Twenty-five years ago, Novak's argument led the way in focusing on families, neighborhoods, and other "mediating institutions" of civil society. It is an argument critical to a realistic sense of national community.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 486
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351300667
• Artikelnr.: 56836097

Autorenporträt

Michael Novak

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Ethnic Assertion in the Seventies
One: The Seventies: Decade of the Ethnics
I: You Can't Go Home Again
Two: Confessions of a White Ethnic
Three: The Nordic Jungle: Inferiority in America
Four: Spiro T. Anagnostopoulos: Remembrance of Humiliations Past
II: The Intellectuals and the People
Five: The Intellectuals of the Northeast
Six: The Concept of the Avant-Garde
Seven: Jewish and Catholic
Eight: Authentic? Authoritarian?
III: The New Ethnic Politics
Nine: Political Dreams for Every Finger of My Hand
Ten: The Ethnic Democratic Party
IV: Ethnicity in the Seventies and Beyond
Eleven: The New Ethnicity
Twelve: Pluralism: A Humanistic Perspective
Thirteen: Ethnicity and Cultural Diversity
Fourteen: How American Are You If Your Grandparents Came From Slovakia in 1888?
Fifteen: One Species, Many Cultures
Sixteen: The Social World of Individuals