ISBN:
9781680532685
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (230 p)
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Diagramme
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Halloran, Mark Iconoclast
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Sociology
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Sociology
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Kulturkritik
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USA
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Identitätspolitik
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Political Correctness
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Konflikt
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Meinungsfreiheit
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USA
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Rassenkonflikt
Abstract:
Iconoclast: Ideas That Have Shaped The Culture Wars -- Edited by Mark Halloran Ph.D. -- Iconoclast: Ideas That Have Shaped The Culture Wars -- Edited by Mark Halloran Ph.D. -- Academica PressWashington~London -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Names: Halloran, Mark (author) -- Title: Iconoclast : ideas that have shaped the culture wars | Halloran, Mark. -- Description: Washington : Academica Press, 2022. | Includes references. -- Identifiers: LCCN 2022939776 | ISBN 9781680532661 (hardcover) | 9781680532678 (paperback) | 9781680532685 (e-book)
Abstract:
Copyright 2022 Mark Halloran -- Iconoclasm:A Very Brief History of the Culture Wars vii -- References xix -- Mark Halloran -- On COVID19 and Times of Plague 27 -- References 49 -- Based on an interview with Nicholas Christakis -- Postmodernism and the Failure of Moral Triage 55 -- References 73 -- Based on an interview with Peter Boghossian -- Me, She, He, They: Reality vs. Identity in the 21st Century 77 -- References 93 -- Heather Heying -- On Free Speech Absolutismand the Deontological Pursuit of Truth 97 -- References 119 -- Based on an interview with Gad Saad
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Let Us Prey: On Islamic Immigrationin Europe and Women's Rights 125 -- References 141 -- Based on an interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali -- On DarkHorse, Ivermectin and Vaccine Hesitancy 143 -- References 158 -- Based on an interview with Eric Topol -- Black Politicized Lives Matter 163 -- References 176 -- Heather Mac Donald -- Making Evolutionary Sense of Sex and Gender 179 -- References 195 -- Jennifer A. Marshall Graves -- Stories and Data: Reflections on Race, Riots, and Police 199 -- References 205 -- Coleman Hughes -- In Defense of Free Speech 209 -- References 226
Abstract:
Based on an interview with James Flynn -- Acknowledgments 229 -- Iconoclasm: A Very Brief History of the Culture Wars -- References -- 'Culture war' -- even the term itself has historically been contentious and divisive. In America, it originated and gained popular usage in the 1920s, to describe the conflict between urban and rural America
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Between those who possessed liberal, progressive values and those who held to traditional, conservative beliefs.1 In the 1990s, the term was reintroduced into the cultural zeitgeist by University of Virginia sociologist James Davison Hunter, with the publication of Culture Wars: The Struggle -- ~ -- This book contains many of the ideas that have shaped the culture wars of the last two decades. Iconoclast, as a title, may seem somewhat hyperbolic. I know that the term had been used in reference to the New Atheist writer
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Description based upon print version of record
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the late Christopher Hitchens,5 but perhaps it is best reserved for historical figures of the magnitude of Galileo. Regardless, this is a book about ideas and the conflicts that come with expressing those ideas. It is also a very brief history. So let us now examine, fleetin
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