详细书目
| 文件类型: | 书 |
|---|---|
| 所有的著者/提供者: |
Daniel A Farber; Suzanna Sherry |
| ISBN: | 0195107179 9780195107173 |
| OCLC号码: | 36969726 |
| 描述: | 195 p. ; 22 cm. |
| 内容: | 1. Radical Multiculturalism and Its Discontents -- 2. Transforming the Law -- 3. Is the Critique of Merit Anti-Semitic? -- 4. Distorting Public Discourse -- 5. The Assault on Truth and Memory -- 6. Anatomy of an Ideology. |
| 责任: | Daniel A. Farber, Suzanna Sherry. |
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摘要:
If historical and scientific truths are entirely relative social constructs, then Holocaust denial becomes merely a matter of perspective, and Creationism has as much "validity" as evolution. The authors go on to show that rather than promoting more dialogue, the radical multiculturalist preferences for legal storytelling and identity politics over reasoned argument produces an insular set of positions that resist open debate. Indeed, radical multiculturalists cannot critically examine each others' ideas without incurring vehement accusations of racism and sexism, much less engage in fruitful discussion with a mainstream that does not share their assumptions. Here again, Farber and Sherry show that the end result of such thinking is not freedom but a kind of totalitarianism where dissent cannot be tolerated and only the naked will to power remains to settle differences.

