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The Twenty-First Century and Its Discontents

How Changing Discourse Norms are Changing Culture

Jack Simmons (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
290 Seiten
2022
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-0801-7 (ISBN)
CHF 59,95 inkl. MwSt
Philosophers and political theorists tackle the question of cultural transformation in the twenty-first century and the role discourse norms play in producing cancel culture, a counter-sexual revolution, racism and a toxic politics that has left the nation feeling vulnerable and angry.
American culture is changing, a sentiment echoed in phrases such as “the new normal,” and “in these uncertain times,” that regularly introduce all forms of public discourse now, signally a national sense of vulnerability and transformation. Cultural shifts generally involve multiple catalysts, but in this collection the contributors focus on the role changing discourse norms play in cancel culture, corporatism, the counter-sexual revolution, racialism, and a radically divided political climate. Three central themes arise in the arguments. First, that contemporary discourse norms emphasize outcomes rather than shared understanding, which support institutional and political goals but contribute to the contemporary political divide, and the notion that we are engaged in a zero-sum game. These discourse norms give rise to a form of Adorno’s administered world, such that we order society according to dominant opinions, which generally means those well acclimated to institutional and corporate culture. Finally, as Arendt feared, the personal has become political, meaning that the toxic public discourse invades private discourse, reducing personal autonomy and leaving us perpetually under the scrutiny of institutional authority.

Jack Simmons is professor of philosophy at Georgia Southern University.

Part 1: Institutional Discourse

Chapter 1: The Outsourcing of Ethical Thinking, Erik Nordenhaug and Jack Simmons

Chapter 2: The Diversity of “Diversity”: Support for Differing Conceptions of Diversity on the University Campus, Kenneth B. McIntyre and Stacy G. Ulbig

Chapter 3: Undermining Communicative Action in the Medical Encounter: Informed Consent, Compelled Speech, and Promises to Pay, Leigh E. Rich

Chapter 4: Sexual Consent and the Return to Canonical Love, Jack Simmons

Part 2: Tribal Discourse

Chapter 5: The Social Justice Discourse Ethics, Robert Gressis

Chapter 6: Dealing with the Devil, Stacy Ulbig

Chapter 7: From “Post-Racial America” to #BlackLivesMatter: Rethinking Race for the Twenty-first Century, Elizabeth Butterfield

Part 3: The Pandemic

Chapter 8: Lessons From the Death Zone: What Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air Can Teach Us About the COVID-19 Pandemic and Why We May Be Doomed to Repeat It, Leigh E. Rich

Chapter 9: Strategic Discourse in the Time of the Coronavirus, Robert Gressis

Erscheinungsdatum
Co-Autor Erik Nordenhaug, Kenneth B. McIntyre, Leigh E. Rich, Elizabeth Butterfield
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 227 mm
Gewicht 472 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Zeitgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-7936-0801-6 / 1793608016
ISBN-13 978-1-7936-0801-7 / 9781793608017
Zustand Neuware
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