Soldiers of misfortune: the New Right's culture war and the politics of political correctness

In Soldiers of Misfortune, Valerie Scatamburlo provides the first systematic account of the political correctness phenomenon

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1. Verfasser: Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, Valerie (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:German
Veröffentlicht: New York [u.a.] Lang 1998
Schriftenreihe:Counterpoints 25
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:XV, 269 S.
ISBN:0820430129

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