Politics, Polarity, and Peace /
The arguments within the contemporary literature paint a clear picture: popular discourse is marked with extreme partisanship and polarization, threatening democracy, tolerance, diversity, pluralism, and cooperation. Polarization simplifies and deforms language, ideas, and people. Polarization reduc...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2023.
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Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2023.
Value Inquiry Book Series ;
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Call Number: JA71
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Part 1
- Deconstructing Polarity
- 1 Uncivil Obedience: a Method for (Potentially) Decreasing Political Polarization /
- Jennifer Kling
- 2 At Peace, with Polarity: Left Cynicism, Cheekiness, and Satire /
- Will Barnes
- 3 Democracy and Partisanship /
- Fuat Gürsözlü
- 4 De-polarization, Nonviolent Agonism, and the Anarchy of Difference /
- Andrew Fiala
- Part 2
- Issues in Contemporary Liberal and Moral Theory
- 5 Democracy, the Carceral State, and the Carceral Ethos: toward a Discourse Democratic Critique of the American Criminal Justice System /
- Seth Mayer
- 6 Security, Education, Public Opinion, and Truth Invoking Mill's Utilitarianism as a Guide to Sustainable Peacemaking in a Fragmented and Frightened World /
- Phillip Todd
- 7 Our Hazardous Polarized World: Exploring the Viciousness of Non-responsive Wrongdoing /
- Court Lewis
- Part 3
- Language
- 8 Hate Speech as Antithetical to Free Speech: the Real Polarity /
- Tiffany Montoya
- 9 Accounting for Moral and Epistemic Culpability in the Contemporary Discourse of Racism /
- Leland Harper
- 10 How Pejorative Language Encourages Physical Violence /
- William Gay
- 11 The Healing Power of Awareness: Nonviolence in Thought, Word, and Deed /
- Anthony White
- 12 The Deadliness of Doing: Agamben, Oakeshott, and Withdrawing from Activity /
- David Liakos
- Index.