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Beyond all reason : the radical assault on truth in American law

著者: Daniel A Farber; Suzanna Sherry
出版商: New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
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In Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law, liberal legal scholars Daniel A. Farber and Suzanna Sherry mount the first systematic critique of radical multiculturalism as a form of legal scholarship. Beginning with an incisive overview of the origins and basic tenets of radical multiculturalism, the authors critically examine the work of Derrick Bell, Catherine MacKinnon, Patricia Williams,
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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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In Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law, liberal legal scholars Daniel A. Farber and Suzanna Sherry mount the first systematic critique of radical multiculturalism as a form of legal scholarship. Beginning with an incisive overview of the origins and basic tenets of radical multiculturalism, the authors critically examine the work of Derrick Bell, Catherine MacKinnon, Patricia Williams, and Richard Delgado, and explore the alarming implications of their theories. Farbers and Sherry push these theories to their logical conclusions and show that radical multiculturalism is destructive of the very goals it wishes to affirm. If, for example, the concept of advancement based on merit is fraudulent, as the multiculturalists claim, the disproportionate success of Jews and Asians in our culture becomes difficult to explain without opening the door to age-old anti-Semitic and racist stereotypes.

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.

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