ISBN:
1299866956
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9781299866959
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9781315023557
,
1315023555
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9781136705458
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1136705457
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (vi, 248 pages)
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illustrations
Parallel Title:
Print version Politics of moralizing
DDC:
303.372
Keywords:
Social ethics
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Ethics, Modern
;
Dogmatism
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Political anthropology
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Ethics, Modern
;
Political anthropology
;
Dogmatism
;
Social ethics
;
Dogmatism
;
Ethics, Modern
;
Political anthropology
;
Social ethics
;
Politische Anthropologie
;
Sozialethik
;
Morale sociale
;
Morale politique
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
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 wom
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction / Jane Bennett, Michael J. ShapiroThe moraline drift / Jane Bennett -- Generating a virtuous circle: democratic identify, 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 versus gothic displacements / Michael J. Shapiro.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
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