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1 online resource |
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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) |
| Summary |
In "Civil Disobedience and the Politics of Identity", Jason Hill attempts to apply general cosmopolitan humanist moral intuitions and democratic political beliefs to certain clearly perceived wrongs that have otherwise been ignored, by 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 the 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 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Civil disobedience.
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Group identity.
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Cosmopolitanism.
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Civil Disorders
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Social Identification
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group identity.
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Social & political philosophy -- 21st century.
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Political science & theory -- 21st century.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Philosophy.
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Civil disobedience
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Cosmopolitanism
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Group identity
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Social & political philosophy -- 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100.
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Political science & theory -- 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100.
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Philosophy.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137350312 |
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1137350318 |
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9781349461141 |
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1349461148 |
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