Civil disobedience and the politics of identity : when we should not get along / by Jason D. Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Jason D., 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil disobedience.

Group identity.

Cosmopolitanism.

Physical Description:

xx, 201 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, [2013]

Summary:

In Civil Disobedience and the Politics of Identity, Jason D. Hill applies general cosmopolitan humanist moral intuitions and democratic political beliefs to clearly perceived wrongs that have otherwise been ignored, providing criteria for when it is necessary to break the peace and become a moral insurrectionist. Hill identifies precisely what we should not get along with: the Islamic burka, the anti-gay marriage movement, anti-assimilationism and xenophobia, and multiculturalism and the politics of identity for their collusion with cultural, racial, and ethnic apartheid. At the end of each chapter, Hill provides a comprehensive and sweeping antidote to each of the political and moral maladies he identifies as contentious norms, mores, and institutional phenomena no civilized society should get along with. Provocative and accessible, Civil Disobedience and the Politics of Identity is critical reading for scholars of political theory, social philosophy, and ethics. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Why We Should Try to Get Along Before Not Getting Along-Moral Clarity, Cosmopolitanism and the Nature of Moral Disagreements 1

2 Leave My Genitals Alone: Same-Sex Marriage and the Nature of Moral Values 17

3 Hiding from Humanity: The Burka, the Face and the Annihilation of Human Identity 53

4 Anti-Assimilationism, Xenophobia, Misanthropy and the Logic of Contagion 87

5 Multiculturalism and Its Collusion with Racial and Ethnic Apartheid 117

6 Educational Multiculturalism and Epistemological Counterculturalism: Toward a Moral Deratification of Their Agenda (Part II) 149.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137330635

1137330635

OCLC:

822971478