Diversity

The History of a Wandering Value
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-90-485-7479-7
Verlag: Pallas Publications

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: The Natalie Zemon Davis Annual Lectures Series - CEU Press

It is startling to realize how quickly and thoroughly the value of diversity, until a few decades ago a value largely confined to the aesthetic and organic realms, has acquired deep political and moral significance. Universities, corporations, and governments are now judged by the degree to which they achieve diversity among their leaders and recognize diversity among their publics. Older values of the liberal polity, for example that of honoring merit without regard to creed, race, sex, or ethnicity, have been increasingly eclipsed by values that closely attend to these and other differentiating traits (which traits matter is contentious). How did this sea change in value come about, and come about so swiftly? And what kind of value is diversity? The long history of diversity as an aesthetic and economic value helps explain the recent rapid rise of diversity as a moral and political value.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Daston, Lorraine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures Introduction: What Makes a Value Valuable? Chapter One: Diversity as an Aesthetic Value Chapter Two: Diversity as an Economic Value Chapter Three: Diversity as a Political Value Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lorraine Daston is Director emerita at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, and Visiting Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. She has published broadly on topics in the history of science, including probability, wonders, objectivity, and the moral authority of nature.