Soldiers of Misfortune

The New Right's Culture War and the Politics of Political Correctness

Valerie L Scatamburlo (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

269 Seiten

1998
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8204-3012-6 (ISBN)

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In Soldiers of Misfortune, Valerie Scatamburlo provides the first systematic account of the political correctness phenomenon. The author contends that the New Right's campaign against P.C. must be understood contextually, as part of the conservative movement's broader 'war of position'. She traces the historical genealogy of the contemporary New Right, the network of corporate-sponsored funding undergirding their anti-P.C. assault; and examines the mainstream media's complicity in propagating anti-P.C. rhetoric. Scatamburlo, however, challenges the notion that the P.C. ethos is merely a myth concocted by the New Right and addresses some of the disturbing tendencies in contemporary Left theory and politics. She locates the P.C. phenomenon theoretically and politically between the linguistic turn in social theory and the rise of identity politics. Claiming that P.C. is, in many ways, a form of pseudoradicalism, the author argues that progressive intellectuals must move beyond the edicts of P.C., the narrowness of identity politics, and the excesses of postmodernism.

The Author: Valerie L. Scatamburlo teaches at York University, Toronto. She has been published in a variety of journals and edited collections.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.1998
Reihe/Serie	Counterpoints ; 25
Sprache	englisch
Maße	160 x 230 mm
Gewicht	410 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8204-3012-9 / 0820430129
ISBN-13	978-0-8204-3012-6 / 9780820430126
Zustand	Neuware