Autobiography / John Stuart Mill ; with appendix of hitherto unpublished speeches and an introduction by Harold J. Laski

• Record Nr.: UNISALENTO991004369433907536
• Autore: Mill, John Stuart
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : Oxford University press, 1969
• Descrizione fisica: XX, 343 p. ; 15 cm
• Collana: The world's classics ; 262
• Altri autori (Persone): Laski, Harold J.
• Disciplina: 192
• Soggetti: Mill, John Stuart Autobiografie; Mill, John Stuart Autobiografie
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Against Inclusiveness : How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910162695903321
• Autore: Kalb James
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago : , : Angelico Press, , 2013; ©2013
• ISBN: 9781621380412; 1621380416
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (147 pages)
• Disciplina: 277
• Soggetti: Cultural pluralism--Religious aspects--Christianity; Cultural pluralism--Social aspects; Liberalism--Social aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- Scope of the Argument -- The Inclusivist Regime -- Demands -- Transvaluing Values -- Silencing Discussion -- Examples -- Meaning and Function -- 2. Traditional Distinctions -- Traditions -- Discriminations -- Fear and Hatred -- Artificial Divisions? -- Stereotypes -- Basic Distinctions -- Sex -- Ethnicity -- Religion -- Formal and Informal Institutions -- 3. Antidiscrimination &amp -- Inclusiveness -- Discrimination Prohibited -- On to Inclusiveness -- Justifications -- Protection Against Injury -- Historical Justice -- Common Humanity -- Avoiding Hurtfulness -- Promotion of Community -- Practical Benefits -- The Multiculturism of Fear -- False Fears -- Is the Remedy Beneficial? -- The Need for Social Peace -- 4. Why Such Strength? -- Social Factors -- Class Interest -- Human Vulnerability -- Background Understandings -- Technology -- Scientism -- Reason -- History -- Characteristics -- Consequences -- Morality and Politics -- The Logic of Inclusiveness -- The Immovability of Inclusiveness -- Ultimate Motivations -- 5. Effects of Inclusiveness -- Compulsion -- Unreality -- Uniformity -- Local Paralysis -- Common Sense -- Family Life -- Organizational Life -- Public Spirit -- ; Suppression of Discussion -- Extremism, Lying, and Abuse -- Permissible Dissent -- Destruction of Thought -- Liberalism, Scientism, and Dogma -- Science Wars -- The End of Science -- The End of Thought? -- 6. The Inclusivist Regime -- A New Ruling Class -- The Managerial Perspective -- Suppression of Dissidence -- Daily Life -- Growing Up Absurd -- A World Without Independent Standards -- The New Hypocrisy -- Multicultural Culture -- Multicultural Particularities -- Identity -- Substitute Identities -- Coolness -- The Soul of Man Under Liberalism -- 7. Progress or Decline?.; How to Decide? -- The Liberal Solution -- Its Deficiencies -- Quantity and Quality -- Destructiveness -- Stupidity and Corruption -- Legitimation of Hatred -- Beneficiaries Injured -- Specific Groups -- Blacks -- Hispanics -- Women -- Sexual Minorities -- 8. Liberalism and Its Competitors -- Alternative Modalities -- Biology -- History -- Triumph of the Will -- Fascism and Bolshevism -- Liberalism -- Christianity -- Inclusivist Christianity -- The Catholic View -- Where Can It Be Found? -- What Is It? -- Whom Would Jesus Exclude? -- 9. Back to the Center -- Fundamental Flaws -- Self-Destruction -- A Return to Sanity -- Problems With Scientism -- Problems With Liberalism -- A New World of Reason -- Good Sense -- Tradition -- Revelation -- 10. Making It Real -- Difficulty of the Struggle -- Toward an Anti-Inclusivist Right -- Fundamental Needs -- Ideals -- The True -- The Beautiful -- The Good and Just -- Religion -- A Favorable Setting -- Making the Case -- Limits -- Conclusion -- Terminal Crisis -- What Next? -- A Rejuvenated Liberalism? -- A More Radical Particularism? -- A Universal Religion? -- Prospects -- Bibliography -- About the Book -- About the Author -- Endnotes.
• Sommario/riassunto: Diversity. Inclusiveness. Equality.-ubiquitous words in 21st-century political and social life. But how do those who police the limits of acceptable discourse employ these as verbal weapons to browbeat their often hapless fellows into having a "real conversation"? How do these terms function as mere doublespeak for the expectation of full-scale capitulation to the views of "right-thinking people"? Those who have long been afraid to touch the issues that attend these words will take great reassurance in an articulate statement of the kind presented in Against Inclusiveness, where the author's approach is sober and extremely well reasoned, as he attempts to marshal truth and fairness as criteria in the examination of issues critical to modern social life.Kalb argues that in current inclusiveness ideology, "classifying people" becomes an exercise of power by the classifier that denies the dignity of the person classified. All rational consideration of human reality is thereby suspended, and the result is something arbitrary and increasingly tyrannical. Against Inclusiveness lays the foundation for what an honest, forthright, real conversation on these matters might look like.