Hill Civil Disobedience and the Politics of Identity

When We Should Not Get Along
2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-35031-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 201 Seiten, eBook

Civil Disobedience and the Politics of Identity  is an attempt to provide criteria for when it is both morally necessary and politically expedient to break with civic harmony social cohesion in the name of a higher social justice.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hill, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Why We Should Try to Get Along Before Not Getting Along: Cosmopolitanism, Moral Clarity and Reasonable Disagreements 2. Leave My Genitals Alone: Same-Sex Marriage and the Nature of Moral Values 3. Hiding from Humanity: The Burka, the Face and the Annihilation of Human Identity 4. Anti-Assimilationism, Xenophobia, Misanthropy and the Logic of Contagion 5. Multiculturalism and Its Collusion with Racial and Ethnic Apartheid: 6. Educational Multiculturalism and Epistemological Counterculturalism: Towards a Moral De-Ratification of Their Agenda (Part II)

Über Autor(innen)

Jason D. Hill is Professor of Philosophy at De Paul University in Chicago, USA. He is the author of Beyond Blood Identities: Post Humanity in the 21st Century (2009) and Becoming a Cosmopolitan: What it Means to be a Human Being in the New Millennium (2000). He is writing a book on cosmopolitanism and moral eugenics.