Decency and Difference: Humanity and the Global Challenge of Identity Politics - Rilegato

Roach, Steven C.

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ISBN 10: 0472131621 ISBN 13: 9780472131624

Casa editrice: Univ of Michigan Pr, 2019

Riassunto

Decency remains one of the most prevalent yet least understood terms in today’s political discourse. In evoking respect, kindness, courage, integrity, reason, and tolerance, it has long expressed an unquestioned duty and belief in promoting and protecting the dignity of all persons. Today this unquestioned belief is in crisis. Tribalism and identity politics have both hindered and threatened its moral stability and efficacy. Still, many continue to undertheorize its political character by isolating it from the effects of identity politics. Decency and Difference argues that decency is a primary source of the political tension that has long shaped the struggles for power, identity, and justice in the global arena. It distinguishes among basic, conservative, and liberal strands of decency to critically examine the many conflicting and competing applications of decency in global politics. Together these different strands reflect a long and uneven evolution from the British and American empires to a global network of justice. This powerful book exposes the gaps of decency and the disparate ways it is practiced, thus addressing the global challenge of configuring a diverse political ethic of decency.

 

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Informazioni sull?autore

Steven C. Roach is Professor of International Relations and Graduate Director at the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies at the University of South Florida.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Univ of Michigan Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0472131621
• ISBN 13: 9780472131624
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 273
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile