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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820374503321

Autore

Feldstein Richard

Titolo

Political correctness : a response from the cultural Left / / Richard Feldstein ; foreword by Teresa Brennan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1997

ISBN

0-8166-8604-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Disciplina

306/.0973

Soggetti

Political correctness

Right and left (Political science)

United States Moral conditions

United States Civilization 20th century

United States Politics and government 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-227) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. The PC Lexicon; 2. Sound Bite Myth: Scholars Hate Students; 3. The Myth of Disinterested Scholarship; 4. Mythic Parameters: Fast-Food PC, McCarthyism, and McReaganism; 5. Constructing the Enemy; 6. The Mirror of Manufactured Cultural Relations; 7. White Male Canon Formation and the End of History; 8. Where Do We Go from Here?; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Written with refreshing clarity and wit, Political Correctness describes a cultural nonphenomenon brought into being by the desires of neoconservatives. Nostalgic for the simple moral logic of the Cold War, the conservative Right has created an evil empire within and conferred upon its enemies-from multiculturalists to postmodernists and poststructuralists-a McCarthyite agenda that demands action from the high-minded.