"Written from the perspective of a liberal intellectual who has spent a lifetime as a writer, editor, and college professor, The Tyranny of Virtue is a precise and nuanced insider’s look at shifts in American culture—most especially in the American academy—that so many people find alarming. Par...

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1. Verfasser:	Boyers, Robert 1942- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York Scribner September 2019
Ausgabe:	First Scribner hardcover edition
Schlagworte:	Vielfalt Toleranz Identitätspolitik Kultur Political Correctness USA Toleration Political correctness Identity politics Liberalism Education, Higher / United States Essays Aufsatzsammlung
Zusammenfassung:	"Written from the perspective of a liberal intellectual who has spent a lifetime as a writer, editor, and college professor, The Tyranny of Virtue is a precise and nuanced insider’s look at shifts in American culture—most especially in the American academy—that so many people find alarming. Part memoir and part polemic, an anatomy of important and dangerous ideas, and a cri de coeur lamenting the erosion of standard liberal values, Boyers’s collection of essays is devoted to such subjects as tolerance, identity, privilege, appropriation, diversity, and ableism that have turned academic life into a minefield. Why, Robert Boyers asks, are a great many liberals, people who should know better, invested in the drawing up of enemies lists and driven by the conviction that on critical issues no dispute may be tolerated? In stories, anecdotes, and character profiles, a public intellectual and longtime professor takes on those in his own progressive cohort who labor in the grip of a poisonous and illiberal fundamentalism. The end result is a finely tuned work of cultural intervention from the front lines." -- inside front book jacket flap
Beschreibung:	Enthält neun Essays
Beschreibung:	xx, 170 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:	9781982127183 198212718X